Speaking of Gogol, what he describes in Taras Bulba is total war, and what he is describing (with great liberties with the truth) is an insurrection. Peasant revolts have a tendency to total violence
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Or what Alexander did to to Tyre, the Athenians to
> Melos, Ghengis Kahn or Tamerlane to just about
> anything? OK, all of the named were colonialists in
> some sense, but they were not capitalists. And the
> practice of razing your enemy's city, killing the
> men, and enslaving the women and children was
> standard and old in Homer's day: Hector says to
> Andromache:
Mataiotes mataioteton, eipen ho Ekklasiastes, mataiotes mataioteton, ta panta mataiotes.
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