Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR [ENG subs] [Chinese Documentary]
Chet Ozman, from our Writer’s Group, does translations from Chinese as well as audio books. Take a look at his material. https://www.youtube.com/@COzmun1
Here is his latest, and he says: ”This is my first large-scale translation project. A full-length Chinese documentary on why the USSR collapsed. Please share widely. There’s great information and perspectives here that very few Westerners know or understand:”
Gradually in thoughtful consideration of the concept HN one or two apercu arise, particularly in respect to the unstated implications of the paper I posted url of, and with respect to the film. Still thinking about this. I suspect that there are serious defects in the authors’ analytical positions and… Read more »
Original learned paper > “Historical Nihilism and the Conflict and Reconstruction of Social Memory” see>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375398162_Historical_Nihilism_and_the_Conflict_and_Reconstruction_of_Social_Memory Recalling the telegraphed Big Lebowski mentions nihilism in contrast to “national socialism” , ie NSDAP or German sort,,, at least, Walter quoth, N/S is an ethos… The nihilism in zonewest is also an interesting matter.… Read more »
Thank you, Mr P, for the link to the learned paper. From the paper – “One characteristic of Historical Nihilism that merits further examination is its deep-seated connection to politics, ideology, and ethnicity. Historically, it has often served as a tool to advance particular political or ideological interests. Historical Nihilists… Read more »
Sudhi: A very helpful addition on your part and I thank you. Your long quotation from the paper offered by Mr P. makes a fine support of what I seek to argue: There is such a thing as a bourgeois scientific paradigm. That paradigm is in itself a massively dominant… Read more »
Thanks for your interesting.insights. I always felt from my limited reading of Marx that he was a spiritual person who called out the feudal patriarchal religions of the day, and I couldn’t reconcile the fetish for scientific materialism that grips modern marxists and the plastic western left. For me the… Read more »
K; Yes this is all a work in progress. Early days still.
“Historical Nihilism” is posited here as a major reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union. I agree. However the same can be said for the entirety of European Socialism. Nihilism is a fruit of disconnection from the creativity of one’s innate core. A very European disease. But this connection… Read more »
Slavoj Z., is that you? Try reading some John Bellamy Foster on Engels and taste one of these mints while you’re at it. Let me just get behind the furniture first…
That’s not a helpful comment.
Make a point and give evidence for it, or make a point and provide a link.
Snow Leopard’s views on Engels are completely wrong. The same old, pathological anti-communist views, going back decades, are all there. When you accompany that with clumsy “lectures” on philosophy then .. the whole effect is comic. Which is why I mentioned the clown prince of Marxism, SJ. To take but… Read more »
N Hanrahan: Your critique has been helpful. I am in alignment with the work of J.B. Foster far more than you seem to imagine. Basically I am seeking to advance Lenin’s theoretical breakthrough: namely – that Marxism (including the valuable contributions of Engels) and its dialectical method must include the… Read more »
To N Hanrahan: You suggested I read J.B. Foster. I value Foster’s work in bringing forward Marx’s perspective on ecology. However your comment about my views regarding Engels being completely wrong calls for a more directly focused response. To quote Engels himself: “Marx was the genius. Compared to him the rest of us are… Read more »
There’s an earlier reply I made; this was regarding an egregious mis-representation of Engels. I see that our friend Snow Leopard has continued with this approach in his/her subsequent contributions. However, having re-read my 6.5 pages of (personal) notes on the video, as well as all the contributions here, (time… Read more »
“why all their classroom discussions were so abstract and lacking in textual detail,…”
That reminds me of your contributions here.
Except that you seasoned yours with unsubstantiated assertions.
Hi Steve: It does not appear that our Mr Hanrahan has the heart to respond to my quoting of academic sources that offer conclusive evidence for my original point regarding the philosophical divergences between Marx and Engels. This was our original point of divergence. You however may enjoy this: On… Read more »
And to you Snowy.
And thanks for all your work.