[lbo-talk] THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE NATIONALISM (Russia)

[Michael Givel]

Hmmm.....we've already heard once your take on the (few) alleged errors in the piece, which apparently is designed it appears, to minimalize ultra-nationalist and neo-fascist trends in modern Russia. No propaganda as far as I can tell as it is overwhelmingly documented that that is occurring.  What you pooh pooh as "spin" others of us like myself call a growing potential threat.  The difference in those two views means being pro-active for human rights now rather than putting out a major forest fire later.


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>What annoys me about such pieces is that they are a
>repeat of the 1990s pro-Yeltsin propaganda with a
>different spin, The trick is to take some fringe group
>(skinheads today, National Bolsheviks back in the
>1990s -- note how the NBP is getting spun as a group
>of plucky opposition democrats nowadays. Then you take
>that group and magnify its power, and link it with
>prominent people/movements to want to discredit.