This statement gets to the crux of the matter: "It is very important to pay attention to the Soviet period because Marxist materialistic views dominated then. Historical materialism shared the universality of Western culture but offered a socialist rather than a capitalist interpretation of it." Materialism discards tradition and concomitant ideas of transcendence in an ill-advised attempt to create a universal heaven on Earth. As philosopher Eric Voegelin so wisely argued, ideological zeal to immanentize the eschaton leads to human misery.
1. This is just blatant ethnocentrism which has absolutely no place in a multiracial society
2. Russia is absolutely NOT distinct from the West. Russia was a colonial power just like Great Britain and attempting to revise this history and frame Russia as a uniquely non-Western entity absolutely denies Russia's collaboration with the Western world in the 17th-20th centuries.
this is of course academic and makes one proud to belong to a state
however, what difference does it make for us working-class people
we want bread on the table and work regardless of ancient history
This statement gets to the crux of the matter: "It is very important to pay attention to the Soviet period because Marxist materialistic views dominated then. Historical materialism shared the universality of Western culture but offered a socialist rather than a capitalist interpretation of it." Materialism discards tradition and concomitant ideas of transcendence in an ill-advised attempt to create a universal heaven on Earth. As philosopher Eric Voegelin so wisely argued, ideological zeal to immanentize the eschaton leads to human misery.
1. This is just blatant ethnocentrism which has absolutely no place in a multiracial society
2. Russia is absolutely NOT distinct from the West. Russia was a colonial power just like Great Britain and attempting to revise this history and frame Russia as a uniquely non-Western entity absolutely denies Russia's collaboration with the Western world in the 17th-20th centuries.