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boIs - the Menorrah, the six-pointed star, the carpenter's square, the
compass, the number 32 - clandestinely in all newspapers as confir–
mation of their presence.
And yet there's more. Bureaucrats, dear citizens, were in–
troduced into our society not by the Soviet managerial system, im–
ponderable though it is in both size and stupidity. No, our bureau–
crats are here because of an international conspiracy of Zionists and
Masons. The agents of imperialism instituted our bureaucracy. Na–
tional Bolshevism abhors international imperialism, it wishes a
plague upon America even more than its forerunner, the "pure,"
original Bolshevism. So we are left to ask to which Masonic lodge
General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev belonged, since he was the
ultimate embodiment of Soviet bureaucracy.
The name Petr Arkadyevich Stolypin inevitably pops up in the
course of the discussion. He, with his experience in rebuilding the
agricultural system, is proclaimed an example of "genuine Russian
patriotism." Losoto doesn't particularly appreciate the Stolypin ex–
ample because he "symbolizes the most reactionary period in twen–
tieth century history." While both the old and new Bolshevisms have
distorted views of Stolypin, they interpret him differently. The old
labels him a reactionary who "gave the green light to Kulakism."
The new won't admit that he restructured Russian agriculture on the
Western model, incorporating the single-family farmstead.
Toward curtain time the debates are carried even to the point
of Moscow as the Third Rome, as the greatest sanctuary of morality
in the modern world. As an unbiased member of Losoto's On the
Contrary, I'd like to ask how moral it is to promote the hatred of
Jews? To strive for the isolation of one's own people while simulta–
neously snatching up other countries? To march senselessly and for
nine years through the bloodbath in Afghanistan? To mill about
onerously in order to keep Eastern Europe in shackles, or to pretend
that Stalin and Hitler and their odious versions of the Final Solution
never existed? That's some kind of moral sanctuary for the modern
world!
Losoto draws her conclusions, taking care to distance herself
from the participants of the Lenin
raykom
rally. The Pamyat Club,
she says, "is just one face of the multifaced petty bourgeoisie. The
bourgeoisie is cosmopolitan, the bourgeois is nationalist, the pro–
letariat is international." According to this classification, and
classification is undoubtedly the first obsession of Marxism (some–
where
I
once wrote that if we only let Marxism classify everything,
