tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10172169.post116221490710569320..comments2024-01-05T23:49:46.254+01:00Comments on DuasCidades: Why did Anna Politkovskaya have to die? by Globetrottermchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08823455191706623233noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10172169.post-1162777932685237422006-11-06T02:52:00.000+01:002006-11-06T02:52:00.000+01:00Look, Anonymous,Monarchy has so much evil in it as...Look, Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>Monarchy has so much evil in it as Republic or any other Regime, does. These systems apply differently to different circumstances, with different results. Maybe Monarchy tends to weigh more a certain line of Tradition, on condition this weighing is more effective in balancing what we can expect with what we can do. I do not believe that a community of Human Beings, with its convictions, representations and also limitations, may choose only once, but the choices it made before in History, certainly condition the choices it has to do in the Future. The experience either of Authoritarian or Democratic Republic in Europe was conducive of social and ecological caos; eUROPE BECAME an abstraction and lost its roots. So it is time for Devolution. Time to return some dimension of Governance (notably the one which leads to the profissionalization of Politics) to a method which has been more balanced with the rest of our existences which is not Politics.<BR/><BR/>Your claim as a socialist sounds good, but remember, f.i., that one of the guys hanging from their feet in a Milan Square, besides Mussolini, was a former communist leader, Niccolò Bombacci, who fled Moscow, as he once fled fascist Italy, the second turn to die with Mussolini, apparently for no reward, except the one of dying with the socialist comrade of his youth. This is not a joke. Do you know how he died? With several fascist leaders making the roman salute;lined up by his side, in front of the Death Squad, he asked the young partisan assigned to shoot him, to aim at his heart. Then he raised his fist and shouted:"long live Mussolini! Long live Socialism!". This is only a case, but Bombacci was since very young, a generous and prestigious communist, in such a way that the Italian Communist Party had to hide his role, as well as the slaying of Mussolini so that their corpses couldn't "talk". I could tell you other cases where socialism is a mysterious thing which has many meanings, precisely as Republic once did, or Democracy does today. Remember always the brothers Strasser, who founded Hitler's NSDAP and who ended up fighting against Hitler. They were socialists and nationalists, at the same time. In terms of "isms" I prefer to leave it to a moral, political but also cultural combination which may live well both under a Monarchy or in a Republic.<BR/><BR/>Regarding the "tsarism", in Russia, as you know, it corresponds to a particular claim of the Russian authocrats, beginning with Ivan the III, who considered themselves the inheriters of Rome. "Tsar", Czar, Kaiser, Caesar all are branches of the same claim, stretching over different corners of Europe. <BR/><BR/>Maybe it is time for Russia to think of a King instead of an Emperor. However, to fight for an Human Face in a Nation's form of Government against any type of faceless Imperialism, could be a good idea and it could help Russia to get out of the vicius circle of Oriental Greatness and western misery, where Tragedy always looms. But Regime is a thing more about living for, than fighting or die for...<BR/><BR/>Thanks for your comment,<BR/><BR/>Globetrottermchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08823455191706623233noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10172169.post-1162661417234008872006-11-04T18:30:00.000+01:002006-11-04T18:30:00.000+01:00Monarchy is evil, I would rather die than be the s...Monarchy is evil, I would rather die than be the subject of any tsar, and I am sure many fellow true socialists would fight against that evil way http://www.lonympics.co.uk/thecrimsonbookofroyalty.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com