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

On Wed, 21 May 2008 02:25:45 -0700 (PDT), Marko Amnell
<marko_amnell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>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.

What about postmodernity?


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