11-11-2020, 09:02 AM
John Xenakis --
it's easy for us Americans to forget, obsessed as we are about our own election involving an incumbent President who is a severe change in direction from all that we have known in the past, that there is far more than our own distress. A Soviet-era border arrangement establishing a heavily-Armenian exclave in the form of an "autonomous republic" within another "Soviet Socialist Republic" has failed after about a century. Commies thought they had the definitive solution to everything, and one of the things that they got wrong was nationalism. Marxism-Leninism would make "bourgeois nationalism" irrelevant as well as criminal because such was "bourgeois". Now that at the least the Marxist-Leninist variant of socialism is defunct in both Armenia and Azerbaijan, nothing stops 'bourgeois nationalism' from reappearing.
Nobody will get the perfect arrangement for anyone. Perfect deals do not exist; if they did they would already have been in place long ago.
it's easy for us Americans to forget, obsessed as we are about our own election involving an incumbent President who is a severe change in direction from all that we have known in the past, that there is far more than our own distress. A Soviet-era border arrangement establishing a heavily-Armenian exclave in the form of an "autonomous republic" within another "Soviet Socialist Republic" has failed after about a century. Commies thought they had the definitive solution to everything, and one of the things that they got wrong was nationalism. Marxism-Leninism would make "bourgeois nationalism" irrelevant as well as criminal because such was "bourgeois". Now that at the least the Marxist-Leninist variant of socialism is defunct in both Armenia and Azerbaijan, nothing stops 'bourgeois nationalism' from reappearing.
Nobody will get the perfect arrangement for anyone. Perfect deals do not exist; if they did they would already have been in place long ago.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
