Monday, 4 August 2008

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Supremely A Critic Of The West

As Andrew Cusack explains.
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6 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 August 2008 at 17:09

    Solzhenitsyn. Let's hear Break Dancing Jesus on that one. And you should bring back Jon for the occasion. Go on, we could all do with a laugh.

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  2. David Lindsay4 August 2008 at 17:11

    They would both be more than welcome.

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  3. Anonymous4 August 2008 at 17:17

    I thought Jon was banned. Make your mind up.

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  4. David Lindsay4 August 2008 at 17:26

    Oh, but I'd like to read him on Solzhenitsyn. Not as much as I'd like to read BDJ, though.

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  5. Anonymous5 August 2008 at 21:41

    So how much Solzhenitsyn have you read then, David?

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  6. David Lindsay5 August 2008 at 22:54

    Not enough.

    He certainly wasn't right about everything, of course. But his predictions about what would happen if Russia simply Westernised after the Soviet Union were spot on. There is simply no denying the decadence of the West. That Communism was wrong did not, and does not, make consumer capitalism right. Which is at least as much a lesson for the West itself as for Russia.

    So, as I said, not enough. But enough to know that I need to read a lot more of him. And I will.

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