Inspired from youth by Albert Camus' sense of the Absurd, I try to be a voice for REASON in the growing darkness and moral insanity of global capitalism .
If Biden thinks he can destroy Putin the way they destroyed Saddam Hussein of Iraq he might ponder a little history lesson going back to the Czarist Russia of 1917 : These headlines from American newspapers 1917 : " Red Guard Captures Petrograd " .... " How Bolsheviks Won Control " ..... " Revolution in Russia Czar abdicates " ... " Extremists Rise to Power in Russia " The West breathed a sigh of relief when " communism " finally collapsed in Russia circa 1991. For 30 years they have had a POST-COMMUNIST Russia to deal with . How now does Putin's Russia ( Czar Putin ? ) offend " OUR democracy " ? As a democratic socialist I can only think it a good thing if primal Bolshevism - really DEMOCRATIC socialism - is restored in Russia after Putin's inevitable downfall. There was a brief time when " Ten Days That Shook the World " inspired the workers of the whole world . And then this " plague " can spread to the rest of the capitalist " FREE WORLD ". Our Eugene V. Debs was convinced that " It Can Happen Here " - SOCIALIST revolution . How is our American plutocracy on a higher moral level than the Russian oligarchy ?
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ReplyDeleteIf Biden thinks he can destroy Putin the way they destroyed Saddam Hussein of Iraq he might ponder a little history lesson going back to the Czarist Russia of 1917 :
These headlines from American newspapers 1917 :
" Red Guard Captures Petrograd " .... " How Bolsheviks Won Control " ..... " Revolution in Russia Czar abdicates " ... " Extremists Rise to Power in Russia " The West breathed a sigh of relief when " communism " finally collapsed in Russia circa 1991. For 30 years they have had a POST-COMMUNIST Russia to deal with . How now does Putin's Russia ( Czar Putin ? ) offend " OUR democracy " ?
As a democratic socialist I can only think it a good thing if primal Bolshevism - really DEMOCRATIC socialism - is restored in Russia after Putin's inevitable downfall. There was a brief time when " Ten Days That Shook the World " inspired the workers of the whole world . And then this " plague " can spread to the rest of the capitalist " FREE WORLD ". Our Eugene V. Debs was convinced that " It Can Happen Here " - SOCIALIST revolution .
How is our American plutocracy on a higher moral level than the Russian oligarchy ?