Saint-Just
23rd October 2003, 16:47
I don't think this particularly goes in literature as it is more about the theories of two people and how they were 'Stalinists'
It will mostly be British people who know these books, I do not know if they are popular in the U.S. They are fiction books mostly concerned with the adventures of rabbits. They have been very popular in Britain, I imagine everyone here who lives in Britain knows them as have probably read some when they were young, or had them read to them.
Anyway, the woman who wrote these books, Beatrice Potter, married a man called Sydney Webb to become Beatrice Webb. In the 30's she visited the USSR with her husband. In 1935 they produced a book called Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?
In 1937 they updated this book as Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation. They had removed the question mark.
Beatrice Potter said this about the USSR "[Soviet Russia] represents a new civilisation and a new culture with a new outlook on life, involving a new pattern of behaviour alike in personal conduct and in the relation of the individual to the community; all of which I believe is destined to spread, owing to its superior intellectual and ethical fitness, to many other countries in the course of the next hundred years."
They also said the USSR was a new civilisation for such reasons:
"European dancing is taboo", and "promiscuity is banned by the Communist Conscience".
These two individuals were important figures in the Fabian society for decades. I am sure the British here know the Fabian society as it has previously been very influential in Labour Party policies with many members having been high up in the Labour Party.
It will mostly be British people who know these books, I do not know if they are popular in the U.S. They are fiction books mostly concerned with the adventures of rabbits. They have been very popular in Britain, I imagine everyone here who lives in Britain knows them as have probably read some when they were young, or had them read to them.
Anyway, the woman who wrote these books, Beatrice Potter, married a man called Sydney Webb to become Beatrice Webb. In the 30's she visited the USSR with her husband. In 1935 they produced a book called Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation?
In 1937 they updated this book as Soviet Communism: A New Civilisation. They had removed the question mark.
Beatrice Potter said this about the USSR "[Soviet Russia] represents a new civilisation and a new culture with a new outlook on life, involving a new pattern of behaviour alike in personal conduct and in the relation of the individual to the community; all of which I believe is destined to spread, owing to its superior intellectual and ethical fitness, to many other countries in the course of the next hundred years."
They also said the USSR was a new civilisation for such reasons:
"European dancing is taboo", and "promiscuity is banned by the Communist Conscience".
These two individuals were important figures in the Fabian society for decades. I am sure the British here know the Fabian society as it has previously been very influential in Labour Party policies with many members having been high up in the Labour Party.