Re: Death of Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Russian Christian writer jailed by

On 21 touko, 07:18, Steve Hayes <hayesm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2008 23:42:38 -0700 (PDT), Marko Amnell
>
> <marko_amn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Let's get back to my initial disagreement with you.
> >You said that Russia is a Western country. That
> >is what I disagreed with. The high level of corruption
> >is just one indication that Russia is not a Western
> >country. It's not even the most fundamental reason.
> >The fundamental reason is that Russia has
> >developed a new model of economic development.
> >This is an interesting turn of events in world
> >history. Among other things, it disproves Francis
> >Fukuyama's thesis about "the end of history."
> >The most interesting theorist of this new model
> >of economic development is Sergei Karaganov.
>
> Levels of corruption as an indicator of "Westernness" seems a very odd
> indicator indeed. I suppose it depends how you define "Westernness". I
think
> Huntington's model makes more sense than Fujuyama's.

Fukuyama has now been proved wrong. The collapse of Communism
did not signal the beginning of an epoch during which
liberal democracy is the universal political system.
Huntington's model of competing civilizations does
make more sense. But Karaganov's ideas are more dynamic
than that. As he says, he is examining a new "path to modernity".
That phrase reminds one of Barrington Moore's
_Social Origins of Dictator****p and Democracy:
Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World_.
That is the context in which Karaganov should be read,
I think. He is looking at a new possible way for countries
to develop into modern societies, and, like Moore,
his analysis includes the whole planet.