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   ROBBIE to All   
   End of History? Scruton Rides Again!   
   02 Jun 06 08:05:33   
   
   From: WORD_CHEMIST@HOTMAIL.COM   
      
   'The fact that he was a life-hating Russian at heart, a self-declared   
   Stalinist, and a civil servant who played a leading behind-the-scenes role   
   in establishing both the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the   
   European Economic Community, should be borne in mind by all who wish to   
   understand what Kojève was really up to in declaring the end of history.   
   This man was, in my view, a dangerous psychopath, who brought with him from   
   Russia the same kind of nihilistic fervour that had inspired the Bolsheviks,   
   and who took an exhilarated joy in the thought that everything around him   
   was doomed. He could not set eyes on any human achievement without relishing   
   its future ruin. He lived in a Götterdämmerung of his own imagination,   
   wishing meanwhile to create the kind of post-historical, universal and   
   bureaucratic form of government that would extinguish all real human   
   attachments and produce the only thing he really cared for: the last man,   
   the loveless and lifeless homunculus which he knew in intimate detail since   
   he knew it in himself.'   
      
   http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-fukuyama/trouble_3605.jsp   
      
   Sounds like Ken Livingstone don't it?   
      
   ROBBIE   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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