Capitol Ideas/Das Kapital Ideas II
Bethell, Tom
fused with high-minded idealism to the ruin of every Democratic presidential candidate since 1964, save one. La-Rouche must have recognized that were he to enter the staid primaries of the...
...was brightly lit...
...I confess it beats me...
...Victor Gold, National Review "Based on his own `outside' reporting –a careful analysis of what candidates said and did–this is a fresh and thoughtful account...
...1.2 million) as their Atlanta...
...That too would be wonderful...
...Inside an old man was kneeling, holding a candle, and crossing himself whenever some East European Party members who had arrived in a Chaika limousine came too close...
...his first poems patriotic, people should struggle for a better life...
...How our satellites know where to look for their mobile missiles is a mystery to me and I Tom Bethel...
...Of course it leaves intact the machinery of government, but it does bring pressure to bear at the more fundamental level of social organization itself...
...The Bankers...
...Volume V begins with the accession to the throne of James I and ends with the execution of Charles I. Volume VI carries the history forward to its end in the Glorious Revolution...
...At the Service Bureau the next day a radio was playing "Chattanooga Choo Choo...
...Everything was wonderful: no unemployment, no crime, no profiteering, and don't forget: twenty million killed in World War II...
...The Stalin museum opened in 1957...
...The Georgian Museum of Art, Lenin Square, Tbilisi...
...Instead, full of hope and enthusiasm, he sent them into that party where fantasticos vie with standard pols, where the Rev...
...Stalin became a professional revolutionary at age fifteen...
...Presently the icy terrain of the Caucasus came into view and we seemed to fly quite close to one tremendous peak...
...In West today, I thought, seminary revolution is at level of doctrine, liberation theology...
...This may well have been a mistaken attitude on our part...
...Here were his favorite books from the library...
...Fifty percent," one said, only to be overruled by another: "A hundred per-cent...
...Forgiveness and forgetfulness were extended to the Rev...
...On the way we stopped at an ancient monastery perched on a hilltop, and at an eleventh-century Orthodox cathedral...
...La-Rouche must have recognized that were he to enter the staid primaries of the Republicans his zanies would attract unwanted attention...
...A Dual Main Selection of The Conservative Book Club A BROOKHISER SAMPLER: A BROOKHISER SAMPLER: ON MONDALE'S ORATORY: "He recited his speech solemnly, like someone explaining the facts of life?' ON FERRARO'S SOPHISTICATION: "She pegged her discussion of Lebanon and Central America to trips she had taken there as a Congress-woman...
...It's either that or no AA...
...Gore Vidal is for-given his excesses, both on the campaign trail when he seeks a Democratic nomination and in left-wing journals when he spins his yarns of conspiracy about the Rockefellers, the American Empire, the "Heterosexual Dictatorship" that governs us, and the "Israeli fifth columnists" who are everywhere, particularly in the media...
...Currency Ex-change...
...I went over to explain: In the Soviet Union Communism is compulsory, at least for the ambitious...
...There were sidewalk flowerbeds and roadside trees...
...She said they were modifying it for Soviet consumption...
...Interior hotel signs were in English only: Service Bureau...
...No sir...
...International capitalism subjects Communism to intolerable competitive pressure, as long as it does not simultaneously pay tribute in the form of subsidies (which it does...
...Our hotel, the Iveria, was built in the early seventies, a somewhat ramshackle but quite pleasant 20-story tower with Hilton-ish aspirations...
...William B. Todd, Kerr Centennial Professor in English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin, has provided a new Foreword in Volume I. Hume's own cumulative index may be found at the conclusion of Volume VI...
...Our Gori goal was the Stalin museum...
...Members apparently believe that Communism fulfills the biblical prediction of the Antichrist...
...I could see why the Communists think capitalism is imperialistic...
...I don't think you need an explanation...
...And only in Russian...
...Any repression in the USSR...
...No sir...
...Was Stalin different in kind from other Soviet rulers, or only in degree...
...The result is that non-democratic countries trying to preserve a regime of privilege against the forces of property are under increasing strain...
...T j could live here," said an expansive Arnold Beichman one day...
...tourism to the Eastern bloc...
...And in the dining room we met some homebodies from the American-Soviet Friendship Society...
...Religious persecution...
...You may be removing the active ingredient that makes it work...
...Gorbachev was in a way correct to speak of the "crisis of capitalism as anti-Communism and anti-Sovietism...
...C A P I T O L I D E A S...
...She referred to them for the same reason Baudelaire wrote about sin, or Thomas Wolfe about Asheville: it was all they knew" ON CUOMO'S ABORTION STAND: "He had found, in consensus and prudence, a way of having religion when he wanted it and not having it when he didn't" ON U.S...
...We were kept waiting for our flight to Tbilisi, and in the Soviet Union you soon learn to wait patiently...
...Georgia was committed to be the country of Our Lady," Lali told us...
...Moreover he does not have the troops that Jackson musters or the goofball charm of Vi-dal...
...No sir...
...Here was a fresco of the Archangel Gabriel...
...Night Bar...
...These were members of a Marxist group in Tbilisi...
...The city had a dusty, Moorish, Mediterranean air—most agreeable after Leningrad's muddy battleship gray...
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...We were packed in uncomfortably tight: knee to kidney...
...She greatly admired Stalin and was not aware that we had (mostly) come to gawk in a spirit of ironic amusement...
...Publishers Weekly "Brilliantly written ....Although it goes over contests with which we are all familiar, it brings them to life by casting a penetrating eye and intelligence on things done and said...
...Describing her recent stay in the Soviet Union (Tbilisi in fact) Stalin's daughter Svetlana told the New York Times: "You could meet a taxi driver, or a man selling vegetables at the bazaar, suddenly bursting forth into talk about how much `private property is needed,' or `nothing can be done without private initiative.' I was surprised how people began to talk about that, without even being asked...
...And this is the period of the so-called socialist realism in art," she said...
...The main street, named after a Georgian poet called Rustaveli (why are poets so worshiped in our socialist age...
...You can have a drink here without worrying about someone dropping some plastique...
...Jackson after his essays into anti-Semitism and related kookery during the 1984 presidential primaries...
...Lali, a couple of tables away, had noticed our altercation...
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...She asked Moffitt how he had found the Soviet Union...
...Well, repressive...
...Unlike Jackson and Vidal, LaRouche has never been a legitimate Democrat or liberal, and so his zaniness, I suppose, will not receive the liberals' dispensation...
...Upcoming on their itinerary was Kiev...
...You're just saying the same old thing...
...Our Intourist guide, Lali, a cultivated Georgian, told us on the bus that 20 percent of the houses in Tbilisi are privately owned (presumably inherited, not sold...
...One was tempted to think of Tbilisi (pop...
...They don't even think of themselves as Communists, but their state of mind is Communist...
...Strolling Yanks wore pastel pants...
...Seminary today is an art museum...
...This brought to mind Whittaker Chambers's apocalyptic foreword to Witness (1952): "I see in Communism the focus of the concentrated evil of our time...
...Chernobyl will reduce their numbers, but not their outlook...
...Lali discreetly said nothing...
...Was not AA based on a belief in a Supreme Being, Moffitt asked her...
...expelled from seminary because of his revolutionary activities there...
...Though standing now last in the series, these were the first (and most famous) of the volumes which Hume wrote...
...to stop nuclear tests...
...She was obviously proud of Georgia, often carefully distinguishing it from Russia...
...Anti-Semitism...
...Stalin lived here: 1894-99...
...We all felt much more cheerful...
...We went to Gori, the birthplace of Stalin, thirty-five miles away...
...DOUBLEDAY Richard Brookhiser writes with the kind of deconstructionist zeal that penetrates the woozy surface of stump rhetoric to isolate the hard nubs of fad within...
...I could see little other than haze from the window...
...He foresaw a great increase in U.S...
...Georgia, USSR, is about the same size and has about the same population as Georgia, USA...
...I suspect that on any given day the Soviet Union is honeycombed with American true believers, whose faith I think is constantly needed to lift Soviet spirits weighed down by the leaden weight of Communist reality...
...suspect to the Pentagon...
...A lady from New York who refused to give her name loudly said: "Tell them that unless we live in peace with the socialist countries we shall all die" Six of them sat at a table right behind ours...
...It was certainly on mine...
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...Within the next decades is to be decided for generations whether all man-kind is to become Communist...
...Stalin (born 1879) had a beautiful velvet voice, the lady told us...
...One had heard horror stories about Aeroflot...
...This new edition, with modernized typography, is based on the posthumous edition of 1778, the last to contain corrections by Hume...
...Jim Jones of the erstwhile People's Temple could fetch the admiration of the eminent, where something as curious as the Rainbow Coalition regularly re-sounds with hubbubs about The Rich...
...The Arms Contractors...
...There was an icon of the Transfiguration from a nearby monastery...
...They were on an enraptured three-week, Nation-advertised tour of the Soviet Union...
...Later Beichman asked the guide: Premier Khrushchev's speech denouncing Stalin was in 1956...
...Teenagers sought out Russian clothes and danced to Russian music...
...There were more cars on the streets and more goods in the shops...
...On a tour bus we saw a bumper sticker: San Franciscans for a Nuclear Freeze...
...Georgia has its own language and alphabet, which the Russians tried to suppress a few years back...
...That is, they believe that a Communist society can be achieved without force...
...With the publication of volumes V and VI, LibertyPress/LibertyClassics brings to a conclusion this new edition of David Hume's History of England...
...It was the icons she had wanted us to see...
...they studied in the seminary with Stalin...
...Civility was still alive south of the Caucasus, apparently...
...They don't call themselves Communists," I said...
...A witty and compelling argument for the good sense of the American people:'–Terry Teachout, The American Spectator "Brookhiser has pumped new life into what, with Theodore White's retirement from the scene, had become a dull if not dormant literary genre...
...Here the famous Khakhuli triptych—notice the cloisonne enamel technique—incorporating a tenth-century icon of the Virgin...
...is The American Spectator's Washington correspondent...
...So it was a relief to touch down in Tbilisi, brightly lit in a valley between the mountain passes...
...In Leningrad we had met an American woman who was attempting to set up an Alcoholics Anonymous chapter—with the approval of the Soviet authorities...
...Sometimes it seems there must be a Humble Origins Indentikit for World Famous People: bare floorboards (please ignore the velvet rope), simple pitcher on functional table, chair for Papa Stalin: everything scrubbed, righteous, and minimal, somehow fit for the Museum of Modern Art...
...a Quite extraordinary m -Willa tee...
...Lev Navrozov said that when a plane crashes they simply bulldoze earth over the wreckage and nothing is reported in the newspapers...
...William F. Buckley, Jr...
...Now in their confused present as in their recent past, the liberals—once such vigilant defenders of reason and tolerance—simply avert their gaze when bigotry and kookery are blurted out by compatriots...
...FOREIGN POLICY: "Americans believe in the brotherhood of man or in the war of the worlds, not in balance of power...
...brilliantly written...
...But we must endeavour to be above any Regard either to Whigs or Tories...
...Vidal believes there is an Oriental conspiracy shaping up that menaces "white people" both here and in the Soviet Union...
...In fact capitalism really has penetrated Communist societies—and at the dangerous level of practical reality and human nature as it is...
...That's because it's been true for a long time...
...Nearby was a group of Syrians with a caged bird...
...No, it was a kind of boarding school, you see Dutifully, she took us upstairs to see the modern works...
...It really is—at the level of commerce...
...A quite extraordinary performance...
...And quite a few people really do have faith in it...
...The next day Rick Brookhiser said, I believe accurately: "We have come to a place that is culturally and economically on the level of Turkey, and we are overjoyed...
...This was about three weeks before the Chernobyl disaster...
...In fact it is a technique of political control...
...Is it that too many of his conspiracies embrace ethnic and religious slurs...
...An alliance with the Soviet Union is a necessity," the goony bird declares, and he squawks on about those American Jews whose "first loyalty would always be to Israel...
...By contrast Western societies are not so much penetrated (in the intelligence sense) as infested by people who dream of human nature as-it-might-be...
...The case of Vidal is particularly timely, for he has just blurted out his anti-Semitic hallucinations in a recent issue of the Nation, and in it he has actually come up with a bugaboo that I had not heard of before...
...I sat next to Larry Moffitt, who told me a little about the Unification Church...
...dollars...
...Still, she was subjected to a humiliating body search for bringing in a Radio Shack computer...
...Central planning is only ostensibly a method of economic production...
...We are the people of contradictions," she replied...
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...They had already been on Soviet television and no doubt would be again...
...Hume himself wrote of these volumes, "...the history of the two first Stuarts will be most agreeable to the Tories: That of the two last, to the Whigs...
...It must have been on everyone's mind...
...Oh, this is delicious ginger ale," one of their party said...
...The doorman gave us a non-Communist bow as we came in...
...All this is behind LaRouche, he insists...
...Had she been inside Soviet (continued on page 48) Back at the hotel the word was that Senator Kennedy had been on Moscow TV, urging the U.S...
...Such people are radically hostile to a free society which fails to insist that all believe in the same thing and work collectively to attain it...
...All orders from outside the United States must be prepaid in U.S...
...On the radio: Hits from Moscow...
...But wait until he gets wind of Vidal's thesis on the exotic Orient...
...Sony will be in trouble...
...First we saw the log-cabin affair where Stalin grew up...
...So why after performing well at thepolls is poor Lyndon the subject of such wide suspicion...
...But she listened attentively...
...Wherein lies the dilemma of the Communists: Let them produce, or keep them under control, one or the other, because both cannot be achieved...
...At the Party Congress Gorbachev noted with alarm that capitalism's "productive forces" have "grown to gigantic pro-portions...
...He was a poetic child, a dreamer...
...Tbilisi seemed to be a good deal freer, more productive, more relaxed than Leningrad...
...In pitiful mimicry of Western ways, an attendant once during our three-hour flight brought around a tray with plastic cups of metallic-tasting water...
...In intelligence jargon, one hears much talk of organizations being "penetrated" by the enemy...
...The country seemed to be semi-mobilized...
...If you're not going to war what do you need that junk for...
...Obviously, there was a fair amount of de factocapitalism...
...We pay book rate postage on prepaid orders...
...Q101 Indianapolis, IN 46250 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1986 this, a sixth-century icon, not painted by human hand according to legend—one of those miraculous icons .. . Could she tell us what particular room Stalin lived in, someone asked...
...By how much should we disarm...
...And imagine that illegal entrepreneurs on the streets were trying to spot Russian tourists so they could change dollars for more desirable roubles...
...And Comrade Gorbachev said at the Party Congress in February: "This is perhaps the most alarming period in history...
...He wants forgiveness and forgetfulness...
...What would you think...
...Imagine you went to the main hotel in Atlanta and all the signs were in Russian...
...The History of England illustrates Hume's belief that the growth of liberty is neither inevitable nor necessary and that the preservation of liberty requires an under-standing of the conditions which gave rise to it as well as the institutional arrangements which sustain it...
...They're nice people and they're obviously not Communists...
...DAS KAPITAL IDEAS II by Tom Bethell In Leningrad Airport there were soldiers and airmen everywhere...
...How come...
...Disarmament was imperative, one said...
...And a Party crackdown would only undermine the productivity upon which Moscow depends...
...The Aeroflot jet itself seemed to have seen recent military use...
...Boy, do I like to take a drink of ginger ale" Everything they had seen was wonderful and everything would continue to be wonderful...
...A lady with yellowish hair showed us the museum...
...This could be seen as the reverse of our own dotty anti-melting pot efforts—funding bilingual education, preserving Cajun French, and so on...
...Larry Moffitt, on his third tour of the Soviet Union, said the more you move away from the center, that is from Moscow, the more attenuated Communist power becomes...
...They would be harmless, but for the fact that they wield considerable power at home, and act as the guardian-proTHE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JULY 1986 11 tectors of Communist power abroad...
...In America it is voluntary...
...But the Russians found themselves with a Georgian rebellion on their hands and so they abandoned their exercise in cultural imperialism...
...7fthere is a better book on the 1984 presidential campaign, I haven't heard about it...
Vol. 19 • July 1986 • No. 7
