the market of the things used to be held in Scandicci the last Sunday of each month, there was a few weeks ago, a young man who exhibited inside an old suitcase full of fiber, a score of old books.
"Where are these books?" I asked.
"belonged to the uncle of my girlfriend, who was treated at the Fifth High." I feel sorry
for those books to the suitcase and the old priest. The book I bought it willingly, if the claim was more modest, this is the "Face of Bolshevism." As far as I can remember, I had never seen the author mentioned in any history book or had never heard of.
But since the book attracted me, I borrowed the copy held by the National Library (library wonderful, where you can find every fragment - or most - of the past). Austrian
The first edition of "The Face of Bolshevism" (Geist und Gesicht des Bolschewismus) is 1926. The author was only 35 years, but his judgments are sharp and weighted and the following decades have been unable to confirm the value. Stalinism in 1925-26 had not yet established and Stalin never even mentioned by Fülöp-Miller (also because the book is just a cultural report). However, the framework that the author describes fatal proves them wrong especially those who complain that the horror of the Stalinist gulag and the catastrophe of the Soviet Union.
The evil was the root.
"Today the impersonal mass is the master of Russia, is the most important new phenomenon that Bolshevism has produced ... Those who believe in the revolution announced by ecstatic rapture that being sinister [mass] will be the great work of the century, the 'new man', the creature of the future that will replace the individual and will rule in his place ... The individual against the mass moves with effortless superiority, because it has the force multiplied by the organization ... This is the only release possible: the evolution of the soul can not lead humanity to a real rebirth, salvation is attainable only with the mechanics union, extrinsic, only additional half of all individuals to the organization . Only external functions that are common to millions of people, movements and contemporary congeners can be connected in many more high units, gears, advanced simultaneous cheers shouted by the masses, choral singing of joy, beatings collective opponent, here are the manifestations of life from which man must leave the top of the new type. But all that separates us from each other, which represents the meaning of individual men, so first of all the soul, is an obstacle to this development and should consequently be deleted. The inner man must be replaced by 'magnificent outer man', the soul must be redeemed by the organization. Since only what he is mechanically organized reality, power, duration, only the mechanical device is reliable, with only 'collective man' released from the hurt of the soul and joint mechanism outside interests to the other, is strong. To him alone belongs the kingdom of the future. "
"So many believers of Bolshevism have sacrificed their souls to the new idol unknown, the mass-man, and just adding another sacrifice of the abolition of private property, you can get a feel horrible that harakiri Russia has had to undergo in the man of the past ... In a world that Russia is rising, with no personal joy for life, with no color pictures, music without harmony, a philosophical system without the support of the inner spirit, a world in which there will only be mechanized soulless machines. With the aggravation of the fanatics, the Bolsheviks condemned all those who want to introduce by stealth a 'psyche' collective in mechanical engineering in humans to depose him in right now the seeds of decay to which it reduces at the bottom of each kind of psyche ".
"belonged to the uncle of my girlfriend, who was treated at the Fifth High." I feel sorry
for those books to the suitcase and the old priest. The book I bought it willingly, if the claim was more modest, this is the "Face of Bolshevism." As far as I can remember, I had never seen the author mentioned in any history book or had never heard of.
But since the book attracted me, I borrowed the copy held by the National Library (library wonderful, where you can find every fragment - or most - of the past). Austrian
The first edition of "The Face of Bolshevism" (Geist und Gesicht des Bolschewismus) is 1926. The author was only 35 years, but his judgments are sharp and weighted and the following decades have been unable to confirm the value. Stalinism in 1925-26 had not yet established and Stalin never even mentioned by Fülöp-Miller (also because the book is just a cultural report). However, the framework that the author describes fatal proves them wrong especially those who complain that the horror of the Stalinist gulag and the catastrophe of the Soviet Union.
The evil was the root.
"Today the impersonal mass is the master of Russia, is the most important new phenomenon that Bolshevism has produced ... Those who believe in the revolution announced by ecstatic rapture that being sinister [mass] will be the great work of the century, the 'new man', the creature of the future that will replace the individual and will rule in his place ... The individual against the mass moves with effortless superiority, because it has the force multiplied by the organization ... This is the only release possible: the evolution of the soul can not lead humanity to a real rebirth, salvation is attainable only with the mechanics union, extrinsic, only additional half of all individuals to the organization . Only external functions that are common to millions of people, movements and contemporary congeners can be connected in many more high units, gears, advanced simultaneous cheers shouted by the masses, choral singing of joy, beatings collective opponent, here are the manifestations of life from which man must leave the top of the new type. But all that separates us from each other, which represents the meaning of individual men, so first of all the soul, is an obstacle to this development and should consequently be deleted. The inner man must be replaced by 'magnificent outer man', the soul must be redeemed by the organization. Since only what he is mechanically organized reality, power, duration, only the mechanical device is reliable, with only 'collective man' released from the hurt of the soul and joint mechanism outside interests to the other, is strong. To him alone belongs the kingdom of the future. "
"So many believers of Bolshevism have sacrificed their souls to the new idol unknown, the mass-man, and just adding another sacrifice of the abolition of private property, you can get a feel horrible that harakiri Russia has had to undergo in the man of the past ... In a world that Russia is rising, with no personal joy for life, with no color pictures, music without harmony, a philosophical system without the support of the inner spirit, a world in which there will only be mechanized soulless machines. With the aggravation of the fanatics, the Bolsheviks condemned all those who want to introduce by stealth a 'psyche' collective in mechanical engineering in humans to depose him in right now the seeds of decay to which it reduces at the bottom of each kind of psyche ".
Fülöp-Miller browse, with very interesting considerations, although the level of journalism, literature, theater, music, architecture, religion and other important aspects of the new Russian life, and concludes his book on a chapter to katorga (forced labor) and one, fundamental ethics of Bolshevism.
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