Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (143421)	5/7/2001 6:52:40 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Eva Jina, Both communists and social democrats soon lost their initial revolutionary vision. In the case of German social democracy, this development was already well under way before the first world war. Soviet Russia, on the other hand, was still using a revolutionary rhetoric, but was in fact going down another road. To use the terminology of the organisation of which they shared membership, there is no doubt that in both cases one was witnessing a shift to the right, and it is only sentimentality and ideology that have prevented people from describing the evolution of Soviet Russia in precisely those terms. Pro-communist, anti- communist, it seemed a lot easier to stick with the accepted categories and take them at their face value - even at the price of distorting the picture monde-diplomatique.fr