<HTML><BODY><DIV style='font-family: "Verdana"; font-size: 10pt;'><DIV>In the article that Kagarlitsky reviles, "Renewals," (NLR, New Series, #1, Jan./Feb., 2000) Perry Anderson writes in a footnote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>   "It is a matter of logic that there is a third possible reaction to the turn of the time, that is neither accommodation or consolation: namely, resignation--in other words, a lucid recognition of the nature and triumph of the system, without either adaptation or self deception, but also without any belief in the chance of an alternative to it. A bitter conclusion of this kind is, however, rarely articulated as a public position." </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>