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
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.
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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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