[Spotykach] Zinovjev?

[olhas]

Hi to all,

I was wondering if someone from you was studing/reading Alexander 
Zonoviev works? And if we shall use his writing to analisis to get 
understanding. So far I like one sentence of him, he said: there is a 
difference between understanding and critic. First one requers a bit 
of brain, second - just emotions. I don't want that our seminar will 
be pure emotional. Therefor I look for the authors which could help 
us get the understanding point better. I attach some small thing of 
him (below). But I did not read a lot of him to be sure if evrything is fit.
If someone have other propositions, please....
regards, Olga


ALEXANDER ZINOVIEV

Zinoviev: what's wrong with the West


The veteran Soviet dissident, Alexander Zinoviev, has explained why 
he is returning to his native Russia after an exile of 20 years. "The 
fall of communism has been transformed into the fall of Russia. The 
Russian catastrophe was deliberately planned in the West. I say this 
because I was once involved in these plans which, under the pretext 
of fighting an ideology, in fact prepared the death of Russia.

Contrary to a widely held view, communism did not collapse for 
internal reasons. Its collapse is the greatest possible victory of 
the West. This colossal victory has created a planetary power. The 
end of communism is also the end of democracy: our era is not only 
post-communist, it is also post-democratic.

This is because democracy means pluralism: that requires the 
existence of at least two more or less equal powers.

During the Cold War there was democracy at world level, a global 
pluralism within which capitalism and communism coexisted.

Now we live in a world dominated by a single force, by a single 
ideology and by a single globalist party.The Western countries are 
dominant but they are also dominated, because they are progressively 
losing their sovereignty to what I call "supra-society". This 
planetary supra-society consists of commercial enterprises and 
non-commercial organisms whose zones of influence are superior to 
those of nations. The Western countries are subjected, like other 
countries, to the control of these supranational structures. But the 
sovereignty of nations was a constituent part of pluralism and 
democracy at world level. The present dominating power is crushing 
sovereign states. The process of European integration which is taking 
place under our eyes is causing the disappearance of pluralism within 
this new conglomerate, to the benefit of a new supranational power." 
[Figaro-Magazine, 24th July 1999]
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