[PEN-L:2711] Re: Russia

[Jim Devine <jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: "T. S. White" <tswrace@xxxxxxx>
>  With all due respect to Mr. Pickett, I am certain his work in Perm
>is meaningful and substantive, he makes the same mistake committed
>by many regional field workers.  I cannot criticize his critique
>of the Harvard Symposium on Russia in the least.  To have the best
>economic minds of our country rubbing elbows with the worst
>economic plunderers of Russia is a moral degradation of American
>self respect.

Too much can be made out of the Harvard crowd's collaboration with the
destruction and plunder of Russia. What happened is pretty simple. What
"the West" did to Russia after it won the Cold War is akin to what the
Allies did to Germany after the first World War. The Harvard crowd simply
rode that tiger, providing ideological rationalizations for the destruction
and plunder. Some profited grandly.

If the Weimar/Russia analogy holds, we should expect fascism to rise to the
top in Russia soon.

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html