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Hi to all,<br><br>
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. <br>
If someone have other propositions, please....<br>
regards, Olga<br><br>
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<font size=4 color="#FF0000"><b><a name="Title"></a>Zinoviev: what's
wrong with the West<br><br>
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<font face="Verdana" size=2>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.<br><br>
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.<br><br>
This is because democracy means pluralism: that requires the existence of
at least two more or less equal powers.<br><br>
During the Cold War there was democracy at world level, a global
pluralism within which capitalism and communism coexisted.<br><br>
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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