The Politics of Poetry
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LET us BE DONE with muddling explanations for the collapse of socialism and admit that it fell because the poetryof personal liberty makes a sweeter, truer song. It is, indeed, spirit and not only bread that counts in the long run, and thus the future of socialism fades away into deserved oblivion. Better poetry wins the hearts of men, always did, always will. In other words, Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn have been proved right or, at least half-right. I leave it to others to recount details of the merely social, economic, military, and political dimensions of the collapse and what it portends. Allow me to reflect on the human essentials for a few pages. No doubt the Soviet and East Bloc economies were (and are) stagnant, verging on disintegration along with the political units comprising these several countries, which are spinning out of control toward secession and independence propelled by highly complex centrifugal forces, with the Red Army being the not so loving tie that binds. (Unremarkably, i t remained firmly in place in Central and Eastern Europe in November 1990, despite all the truly remarkable changes in that region since 1989, with a ten percent reduction promised by 1991.) The political economy of Marx-Lenin was wrong from the start, so why be surprised that i t did not and does not work? With a focus on the USSR, thesecular prospects appeared this way to the experts in the summer of 1989:
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