[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Wed Aug 17 18:46:50 PDT 2011


On Wed, 17 Aug 2011, SA wrote:


>> If you consider unintentional consequences the mark of a Great Man, then
>> he's your boy. Breaking up the SU was not what he was trying to do.
>
> Yes, that's absolutely right - the ultimate consequences were unintentional.
> (Unlike Lenin?) But I'm not nominating a Great Man in any normative sense,
> just a person whose individual actions were exceptionally historically
> consequential.

In that case, we live in the era of Bush.

Michael



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