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"Why is Kagarlitsky better than Girkin?" How the main Russian Marxist was friends with the authorities and was arrested
The reaction of commentators, both on the right and left, was rather unanimous about the recent arrest of sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky and was that this was a big mistake. The left rests on the fact that an outstanding left theorist, a “neo -Marxist”, is arrested. The right ones are convinced that it is wrong to arrest Kagarlitsky, because as a well -known left -handed in the west, it can be very useful to the Kremlin to continue manipulating the West.
Here are two typical statements by the right -wing experts.
The famous Kremlin political strategist Sergei Markov: “Boris Kagarlitsky today is probably the most influential Russian politician and expert of the left camp in the world. He has been “inserted” into the huge international left -wing socialist movement for 40 years now. And he expresses in many ways the position of this left international socialist movement. He should not be put in jail, but actively working as the presidential administration with him ... "
Almost everything is true in these words Markov. Indeed, a fluent in several European languages, an excellent speaker Kagarlitsky has been representing himself in the West for three decades as the main Russian “left” and “Marxist”, opposing the conservative Stalinist leadership of the Communist Party. The only thing, it is not clear why the last phrase from the fragmented passage sounds in the form of a kind of sentence? The administration of the President of the Russian Federation with Boris Yulyevich worked a lot and fruitfully, and running ahead - it is impossible to say with confidence that it has stopped working now.
In any case, when the other day, the journalist of Kommersant, Andrei Kolesnikov, asked the Russian Duche to comment on the arrests of Boris Kagarlitsky, director Evgenia Berkovich and screenwriter Svetlana Petriychuk, Putin somehow grinned at Kagarslitsky. However, having realized himself, he immediately stated that he hears these names for the first time, noting that it could, and it was not worth doing with them in this way ...
“Leave me alone from Karelitsky! Do not allow a gross political error. If it is suddenly imprisoned, then it will be a huge harm to Russia in the world, ”Markov begs to whom.
Similar thoughts are expressed by another conservative Russian philosopher and political scientist close to the Kremlin, Boris Mezhuev: “There is a feeling that this is just conscious sabotage. And this is when Robert Kennedy Jr. advocated establishing relations with Russia ... Maybe he will not become the president of the United States, but the real threat to the current president (America), which occupies the anti-Russian position from the left circles of the Democratic Party, becomes very definite. Most importantly, these left circles of the Democratic Party represented by Kennedy Jr. denote their more moderate course against Russia. And at that moment they arrest the most famous person in these circles in Russia. Naturally, the mood in this environment is to seek interaction with Russia - after such an arrest, it will decrease at times. ”
The fact that Kagarlitsky mastered the grants of the President of the Russian Federation for many years did not write only the lazy. He personally told me that he received a presidential grant to work on the topic of migrants in Russia. It was, if I am not mistaken, in 2012. But this, in the end, is not his worst sin.
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