A well-known artist told about obscurantism in Ukraine

29 May 2017, 07:42 | The Company
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The fact that in Ukraine a student is judged for quoting Vladimir Lenin and destroying the "Capital" of Karl Marx can be called obscurantism.

This was stated by the artist Alexander Roitburd in his interview to the "Observer".

"I do not know exactly what he wrote there in the social network (a student who was convicted for 2.5 years for quoting Lenin. - Red. ), But we need to distinguish between calls for violence and seizure of power, the creation of groups that plan violent actions, and personal posts with views that we do not like, say,. The first must be stopped, and the second person has the right, if, again, his posts do not carry a threat to the constitutional order. In addition, I believe that reading Lenin is useful in many respects. And it is published all over the world, for those who are interested in it, "the artist believes..

The fact that the court decided to destroy the "Capital" of Marx as an instrument of crime, Roitburd called "obscurantism".

"Capital" is a classic of political economy, which is studied in all universities of the world, which is included in the compulsory baggage of the modern intellectual. This does not mean that it is considered a good tone to support and share his futurological ideas, which have proved their fallibility in the inconsistency and utopianism. But the analytical part of "Capital" is still working in the modern world, and to his theory there is a periodic interest, now it is fashionable in America.

To bring the book of Marx under the knife is the legacy of Bandera's ideology, which today's European state does not quite fit. The phobia of Marxism was formulated by ideologists of the OUN, who also treated liberalism and democracy in the same way. They abhorred all these concepts, including Marxism, "- he summed up.

As reported by the "Observer", Roitburd also believes that the level in Odessa.

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