In 1937 Lion Feuchtwanger travelled to the USSR and took an interview with Stalin. He described this interview in his book "Moscow, 1937". However, the original
Yeah I think that's a good point. "Cult of personality" is just a way to disparage a bottom-up, groundswell enthusiasm for leadership that arises from liberation projects. Liberals would never chastise such a phenomenon in their own nations but they have to force enthusiasm from the top because their policies don't naturally inspire any such enthusiasm within the masses. Since they can't obtain obtain the admiration of the people in earnest, they resort to disparaging the phenomena as unhealthy and unjust.
I don't think I'm going to qualify propaganda or beneficial economic policies favoring institutions & small business as "organic". That to me is clearly driven down from the top rather than rising from the base of the population.
As for the identity component - it is more chimeric/nebulous but often these components are magnified via propaganda and people's propensity to place value on such incidental things can also be amplified by propaganda.
Yeah I think that's a good point. "Cult of personality" is just a way to disparage a bottom-up, groundswell enthusiasm for leadership that arises from liberation projects. Liberals would never chastise such a phenomenon in their own nations but they have to force enthusiasm from the top because their policies don't naturally inspire any such enthusiasm within the masses. Since they can't obtain obtain the admiration of the people in earnest, they resort to disparaging the phenomena as unhealthy and unjust.
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These are fascist enthusiasts, not liberal enthusiasts.
No one organically likes these people, anything resembling "fervor" is forced from the top down through MSM
Maybe a more clear way to get my point across is they call it "Cult of Personality" abroad and "vulgar populism" domestically.
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well that goes without saying but they are a stark minority
and they are lizards.
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I don't think I'm going to qualify propaganda or beneficial economic policies favoring institutions & small business as "organic". That to me is clearly driven down from the top rather than rising from the base of the population.
As for the identity component - it is more chimeric/nebulous but often these components are magnified via propaganda and people's propensity to place value on such incidental things can also be amplified by propaganda.
Our disagreement is largely semantic.
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