The following is from July of 2015:
Vadim Borisov was an historian in Russia who coordinated efforts to protect and restore Alexander Solzhenitsyn's literary works in his own country. He was also one of the contributors to From Under This Rubble (1973) edited by Solzhenitsyn. His contribution to the book revolved around the concept of an inherited "national consciousness" as opposed to individuals and whole nation's peoples being born with a clean slate and therefore subject in their development to the state.
He quotes a "famous dictum" of V. I. Lenin's in " Socialism's aim is not only to abolish the fragmentation of humanity into small states and to end all distinctions between nations, not only to bring nations closer together, but to bring about their fusion." A large sign at a Leftist inspired protest of a Donald Trump event the other day read "crossing borders is not illegal...borders are illegal." Borisov writes that this new society... "intends to destroy historical memory and make history nonexistent." Our American heritage is becoming less and less valued, slandered and viciously attacked.....and that's exactly what the Communist wanted, instigated and now rejoices in.
Returning to Vadim Borisov....he referenced the Bible and the words of Jesus in "go ye therefore and teach all nations" and Psalm 86 in " All nations whom thou hast made." His writing is a defense against the Communist view of the individual being soulless and subject to design of the state. This is much more than a political discourse that he presents. He, and other writers in Solzhenitsyn's editing, pleaded for a restored Russian people...one of a "plurality of personalities of a single mankind" and with all glory...."laid at Christ's feet."
The author references our Founding Fathers in America who propounded the "eternal rights of man and the citizen," and writes that that has disappeared as "rationalism, positivism and materialism, developing in opposition to religion, successfully destroyed the memory of this absolute source of human rights." He does admit that some culpability also belongs to the church itself and takes culpability back as far as Peter the Great, then states that the nation (Russia) ultimately "degenerated into Marxism with its theory of class hatred." Marxism, he writes "became the pure embodiment of national nihilism" with banners such as "the proletariat has no fatherland."
I'm writing this post because the Leftists in America are taking us where Russia has been. They don't want us cognizant of who we once were. Borisov writes: "Within a short time the Russian people had been brought to a state of almost total ignorance of their own history, deprived of their national culture, almost deprived of their reviled and persecuted church..." The author was also prescient in his concern that many saw science and technology as the answer to the ills of mankind and asked this question..."What guarantees are there that men will display reason and goodwill?" The answer, as we have found out, is that they will more often not display reason and goodwill. Thus we have the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, the scams of global warming and the personality-less, mind and culture-numbing narcissism of social media.
This "new society" that is envisioned by these theorists seeks a "reconstruction of the world".. and a "universal man." Look closely folks......these thoughts are in the news often. Vadim Borisov wanted to make sure that "nationalism" is not confused with a "national feeling" or a national consciousness....nationalism being something that is "antipersonel," whose adherent "acknowledges such a value only in the nation on whose bosom he happened to be born.." This 'nationalism,' in Borisov's description, is an "ideology" and a "tool" with great destructive potential as history has so often shown.
America is in a very similar situation today to the predicament that Borisov wrote of Russia in 1973. We once had a national consciousness only we refer to it more as the American Creed. It defined us. The people that we once were, who were of this American creed, would not have fallen for the inane politically correct mantras that have ravaged our intellect and turned us into a genderless, leaderless, Socialist and godless society. Many see and recognize the horror of this....most don't....but all will....and in the not-too-distant future.
Vadim Borisov was an historian in Russia who coordinated efforts to protect and restore Alexander Solzhenitsyn's literary works in his own country. He was also one of the contributors to From Under This Rubble (1973) edited by Solzhenitsyn. His contribution to the book revolved around the concept of an inherited "national consciousness" as opposed to individuals and whole nation's peoples being born with a clean slate and therefore subject in their development to the state.
He quotes a "famous dictum" of V. I. Lenin's in " Socialism's aim is not only to abolish the fragmentation of humanity into small states and to end all distinctions between nations, not only to bring nations closer together, but to bring about their fusion." A large sign at a Leftist inspired protest of a Donald Trump event the other day read "crossing borders is not illegal...borders are illegal." Borisov writes that this new society... "intends to destroy historical memory and make history nonexistent." Our American heritage is becoming less and less valued, slandered and viciously attacked.....and that's exactly what the Communist wanted, instigated and now rejoices in.
Returning to Vadim Borisov....he referenced the Bible and the words of Jesus in "go ye therefore and teach all nations" and Psalm 86 in " All nations whom thou hast made." His writing is a defense against the Communist view of the individual being soulless and subject to design of the state. This is much more than a political discourse that he presents. He, and other writers in Solzhenitsyn's editing, pleaded for a restored Russian people...one of a "plurality of personalities of a single mankind" and with all glory...."laid at Christ's feet."
The author references our Founding Fathers in America who propounded the "eternal rights of man and the citizen," and writes that that has disappeared as "rationalism, positivism and materialism, developing in opposition to religion, successfully destroyed the memory of this absolute source of human rights." He does admit that some culpability also belongs to the church itself and takes culpability back as far as Peter the Great, then states that the nation (Russia) ultimately "degenerated into Marxism with its theory of class hatred." Marxism, he writes "became the pure embodiment of national nihilism" with banners such as "the proletariat has no fatherland."
I'm writing this post because the Leftists in America are taking us where Russia has been. They don't want us cognizant of who we once were. Borisov writes: "Within a short time the Russian people had been brought to a state of almost total ignorance of their own history, deprived of their national culture, almost deprived of their reviled and persecuted church..." The author was also prescient in his concern that many saw science and technology as the answer to the ills of mankind and asked this question..."What guarantees are there that men will display reason and goodwill?" The answer, as we have found out, is that they will more often not display reason and goodwill. Thus we have the potential dangers of artificial intelligence, the scams of global warming and the personality-less, mind and culture-numbing narcissism of social media.
This "new society" that is envisioned by these theorists seeks a "reconstruction of the world".. and a "universal man." Look closely folks......these thoughts are in the news often. Vadim Borisov wanted to make sure that "nationalism" is not confused with a "national feeling" or a national consciousness....nationalism being something that is "antipersonel," whose adherent "acknowledges such a value only in the nation on whose bosom he happened to be born.." This 'nationalism,' in Borisov's description, is an "ideology" and a "tool" with great destructive potential as history has so often shown.
America is in a very similar situation today to the predicament that Borisov wrote of Russia in 1973. We once had a national consciousness only we refer to it more as the American Creed. It defined us. The people that we once were, who were of this American creed, would not have fallen for the inane politically correct mantras that have ravaged our intellect and turned us into a genderless, leaderless, Socialist and godless society. Many see and recognize the horror of this....most don't....but all will....and in the not-too-distant future.
