The Suicide of the East?

[antonborisov]

Интересная, на мой взгляд, и достаточно спорная статья о развале Советского Союза.

Из журнала Foreign Affairs.

На английском.

Полностью статья — здесь.

Especially in light of Burnham’s former prominence on the American left, his arguments intrigued George Orwell, a self-described “democratic socialist.” Writing from the United Kingdom, Orwell noticed the fascination with power and force that so imbued what Burnham called his “realism.” In early 1947, Orwell wrote that for Burnham, “Communism may be wicked, but at any rate it is big: it is a terrible, all-devouring monster which one fights against but which one cannot help admiring.” Against Burnham’s visions of monsters and cataclysms, Orwell hoped that “the Russian regime may become more liberal and less dangerous a generation hence, if war has not broken out in the meantime.” Or perhaps the great powers would “be simply too frightened of the effects of atomic weapons ever to make use of them.” Yet Orwell acknowledged that such a nuclear standoff was a dreadful prospect, as it would mean the lasting “division of the world among two or three vast super-states,” run by Burnham’s technocratic dictators — the Machiavellian managerial elite.

Статью я нашел у Игоря Ефимова.

Запись оттранслирована из моего журнала Комментировать можно здесь или по ссылке http://www.a-borisov.com/2009/11/16/the-suicide-of-the-east/

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[alatoo.livejournal.com]

Дочитала до середины, свело скулы от скуки. Автор с умным видом пишет бредятину. Делили ресурсы, и продолжают делить, а каким словом называется строй, и какая к нему приклеена идеалогия - не суть важно.