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La grande rupture - sociologie d'un monde bouleversé, Alexandre Zinoviev (trad. Slobodan Despot), éd. Éditions l'Âge d'Homme
The Great rupture - Sociology of a changing world (2000)
In reality, Orwell did not predict the future post-capitalist society, but simply expressed as no one had done before the West's fear of communism. p. 672
Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)
Totalitarianism is spreading everywhere because the supranational structure imposes its law on nations. This non-democratic super structure gives orders, sanctions, bombs, and starves.
The Great rupture - Sociology of a changing world (2000)
By transforming Marxism into an official ideology, dialectics had no longer been made an instrument of knowledge of complex realities, but a means of stupefication and ideological fraud. p. 324
Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)
To enjoy freedom, you need money p. 89
Para Bellum (1987)
While considering communalism as a universal phenomenon, I emphasized that only communist society was totally governed according to the laws of communality. p 424
Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)
The world once again finds itself faced with crazy temptations and crazy seductions. […] Be afraid of those who seduce you because seducers always deceive! p. 696
Confessions of a Too Much Man (1990)
A pluralist system under a communist regime is an absurdity. The parties would immediately go to war, and one of them would win (or the country would divide into “independent” states). p. 115
They new the old folk wisdom: what has been built might be really crap and therefore it doesn’t make any sense to dig it, for the smell could make the life really impossible. They regarded Gorbachev exactly that kind of a fool, who had broken the rule.
Katastroika (1988)
The scientific approach uncovers, that Communism does not eliminate the inequality between men, the social injustice, exploitation of man by man and other evils of society – communism merely changes their form and gives birth to new evils, which become eternal fellow-travelers of communism.
Gorbachevism (1988)
... in the social tragedy the judge pronounces a verdict against the victim.
The Global Suprasociety and Russia (2000)
The Stalin Square and Stalin Prospect were renamed Lenin Square and Lenin Prospect. The statue of Stalin was remade into statue of Lenin.
Katastroika (1988)
Furthermore, if people seek power, it is not for power per se, but for the material advantages that their position and influence could provide them. p. 42
... as far as the conquests of science are concerned, they are the foundation on which an obscurantism flourishes, with which the obscurantism of the Middle Ages pales in comparison.
The Global Suprasociety and Russia (2000)
... the masters of the global supra-society continue Hitler's work, but using the much more powerful means of contemporary science and masking their aims under the label of democracy.
The Global Suprasociety and Russia (2000)
The intellectual level of Westerners has never been very high. This is still the case today: you don't have to be intelligent to have power. Westerners create computer models, but they don't have scientific models.
Interview with Alexander Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Zinoviev for the newspaper "Zavtra (2006)
Marxism disguises itself as science and owing to this it is easier for Marxism to portray the existing society as acting on the basis of scientific laws of his history, to portray the leadership’s selfishness and idiocy as ingenious scientific foresight etc.
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)
One physicist writes a study on microphysics, but another writes a book on the importance of Lenin’s and Engels’ works for the development of physics; one mathematician proves theorems, another publishes demagoguery on ingenious mathematical ideas of classical Marxists.
On the Social State of Marxism (1978)