Re: AR's politics


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Posted by Adam Quinan on February 07, 2006 at 00:21:24 from 72.136.51.111 user Adam.

In Reply to: Re: AR's politics posted by Jock on February 06, 2006 at 20:38:02:

AR came from a "Liberal" family. Now Liberal is a word whose meaning changes from place to place and time to time. In AR's day it was probably what we would call fiscally conservative but socially espoused freedom from state control. (I am not suggesting that AR would have supported gay marriage back then but he might now).

I think that AR seems to have believd in having freedom to do as you wish, provided you didn't interfere with or harm others by doing it. But maybe I am just seeing my own philosophy reflected in my image of AR, a common problem here.

I don't think that AR ever really believed in socialism in any serious intellectual or political way. He supported the Bolshevik revolution because he had seen the autocracy losing the war for Russia and seen how the people had suffered under the Tsar. He probably thought that the Bolsheviks were bringing a more democratic and enlightened way of life to the Russian people. Besides it was exciting, the new love in his life supported socialism (although her family were Menshevik) and he was meeting the top leaders of a revolution and interviewing them and possibly being wooed by them.

I am sure that the revelations of Stalinism appalled him.


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