[lbo-talk] Therapeutic Rant of the Day: The Ayatollahs of Academic Privatization

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sat Dec 5 13:30:16 PST 2009



> most of the oligarchs were not former apparatchiks.

Aliyev was not an apparatchik?


> Khodorkovsky was a Komsomol head.
>
Komsomol head was not a nomenklatura post?

And who were Nazarbayev and the other 'stansvozdhs?

Shane Mage


> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos



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