tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post3244038535810467773..comments2024-03-10T09:53:06.804-07:00Comments on ZZ's blog: Scoundrel Time-- Again?zoltan zigedyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09376602245528691381noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6679900905356691531.post-78867104846767188332012-07-03T05:53:28.566-07:002012-07-03T05:53:28.566-07:00Zoltan, thank you for taking up this important iss...Zoltan, thank you for taking up this important issue--the institutionalized prostitution of historical scholarship in the West. The gang of Pipes, Figes, Conquist, Malia et al. is just an ultimate, almost caricature-like example of the moral, political, and intellectual degradation under this late stage of Western capitalist imperialism. I would only add the unrelenting cultivation of Russophobia to the anticommunism and anti-Sovietism of Western historiography of Russia and the USSR. The function of any national, ethnic, or racial phobia as consciously and persistently cultivated by the ideological apparatus of the ruling class is to prepare their population for war against and exploitation of the phobia object, be it Russia, Iran, China or any other entity that may stand on the way of imperialist designs. I would also give more attention to that part of anti-Soviet and anti-Russian propaganda that labors to erase the essential differences between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union and, by doing this, to mask the essential continuity and compact between "Western democracies" and Western Nazism and Fascism as the ultimate forms of capitalist imperialism and class rule. In my opinion, both topics are important today as the fascist potentials and undercurrents of Western capitalism become more pronounced with every day.Valentin Zorinhttp://www.left.runoreply@blogger.com