Jim, Recently in Sacramento, David Marshall of the CPUSA spoke about the Russian crisis and the responses of the Communist parties. In a nutshell, despite the awful suffering of the population at the hands of we know who (ex-nomenklatura and U.S. capital), he was encouraged during his recent visit by the grassroots efforts underway to make the political system work for the Russian people. Regards, Seth Sandronsky >Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 06:54:26 -0800 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >From: Jim Devine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [PEN-L:2718] Re: Re: Re: Russia >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Saith I: >><< f the Weimar/Russia analogy holds, we should expect fascism to rise to the >> top in Russia soon. > >quoth Maggie: >>Jim, haven't a number of fascists already won significant numbers of votes in >>Russian elections? I can't remember the guys name, but I saw a 60 min >>interview with some guy who impressed me as being fascist, crazy, and >>charismatic -- a deadly combo. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Vladimir Zhirnowsky (sp?), a.k.a. Russian Limbaugh? He's gained a lot of >popularity (though my untutored impression is that he's peaked). I was >familiar with him, but that's not what I was talking about. I was thinking >of the general imposition of Mussolini-type fascism (or worse) on Russia as >a whole. A coup by the military perhaps, not only to restore Law and Order >to Russia (while junking the sham democracy and the subservience to the >US/IMF) but to save the miltary's own bacon (since they're in big trouble >too). It will involve heavy Russian nationalism and probably antisemitism. >It might even portray itself as left-wing, attacking the growing societal >inequality (a flashback to the Peruvian coup of 1968). > >But then again, I've been predicting something like that for several years >now and it hasn't happened. Yeltsin still hangs on. My inability to predict >is probably based on inadequate understanding of the Russian situation. So >I hope that someone on pen-l chimes in with more information and analysis. > >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & >http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/JDevine.html > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
