Strelkovs comrade in arms from Slavyansk with a name de guerre Sever (North) speaks his mind. Among other things, he says that there has not been a better system than Soviet socialism. Why? Two things: 1) everyone had a work, and the right to work was the grounding of mans dignity, 2) related to that was Soviet socialisms early achievement (as opposed to its officially developed or decadent and dying form) encapsulated in the slogan and greeting: Honor to work. Honor, a virtue, previously a supposedly aristocratic value, had been won by the people. This concept of honor was and is very different from the liberal/bourgeois or American sense of being special whereby one caresses ones ego/egoism. The Soviet sense of honor was tied (horror of horrors!) to the common good: Everyone is free to win honor if s/he serves the common good according to ones abilities. To achieve honor meant to serve the common good. Part of this agon for honor was for men to serve in the army. In other words, what was truly animating the system and giving it its energy, life, and purpose was a moral, ethical idea of the intertwined notions of honor and the common good. When Soviet leadership and bureaucracy became dead to the idea of honor and the common good--hence to the idea of the good, the system started to die and stink from the head down. For, in this way, the leadership, as opposed to the majority of the people in the Soviet Union, died to what was making the system alive. Sever is now fighting for his honor ... for bringing the idea back to life. Meanwhile, oligarchic Moscow tries to strike a deal with Kievs Nazis in order to avoid all this. They want to remain feeling special as partners of the Empire. https://youtube/watch?v=JciJjH7YU8c
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:02:09 +0000
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