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the suppression of classes, whereas its falsehood lies in its spiritual foundations which result in a process of dehumanization, in the denial of the worth of the individual

Russian communism is a distortion of the Russian messianic idea; it proclaims light from the East which is destined to enlighten the bourgeois darkness of the West. There is in communism its own truth and its own falsehood. Its truth is a social truth, a revelation of the possibility of the brotherhood of man and of peoples,

Anarkism i ryssland

Russian athtism was born of compassion, of the impossibility of enduring the evil of the world, the evil of history and civilization. It was a peculiar form of Marcionism which was experienced by the thought of the nineteenth century. God, the Creator of this world, is rejected in the name of righteousness and love. Power in this world is evil, the government of the world is vile.

Radishchev

The Russians arc not sceptics, they are dogmatists. Among them everything takes on a religious character; they have little understanding of what is relative.

Russian poetry always retained, and still retains down to the present time, an elemental, ecstatic dionys-ism. During the conflagration of the Russian Revolution a Pole said to me: 'Dionysus is abroad in the Russian land/ The enormous power of Russian choral singing and dancing is due to this.

Kyrkoslavoniska som anledning till frånvaron av litterär och intellektuell kultur.