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Tolstoy, Marx, and Lincoln
Ironically, War and Peace looks like belonging to the older era than the era of Manifesto of Communist Party. And the US Civil War really looks like having nothing to do with War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Tolstoy believed in God. Marx believed in his talent that was his weapon against the industrialized Christian Europe. But Americans believed in their power and freedom.
They were all subject to each environment. War and Peace is a product of the 19th century's Russia. The Manifesto of the Communist Party is a product of the 19th century Germany, France, and England. The Civil War was an inevitable incident of the 19th century America.
Nonetheless, the underlying themes of these three major historical items of the 19th century influenced Europe and America in the 20th century. And, while peoples failed to address significant issues embedded in these historical items in the 20th century, we now face more complicated historical items of Islam and China.
Western elites have been busy handling Christianity and socialism/communism in Europe and racial issues and building of the free nation in America. But today, they have to deal with foreign issues such as Islam and China. But we have no materials that symbolize these new challenges and that could be comparable to War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
However, it is true that it is the US that is most responsible for handling Islam and China in the historical context. Experiences in Europe might not be effective in tackling these new challenges. It is probably useless to read War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party in addressing these new challenges. Europe cannot solve them. But, the American experiences of its Civil War might have some relevance in efforts to deal with Islam and China.
Anyway, if War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party are part of your intellectual bases and identities, you are part of the 20th century Europe, which is however useless in the 21st century Islam and China.
We might need 21st versions of War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party to solve the problems caused by Islam and China. Otherwise, the US military power would be the only last resort.
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Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
Mar 5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.
They were all subject to each environment. War and Peace is a product of the 19th century's Russia. The Manifesto of the Communist Party is a product of the 19th century Germany, France, and England. The Civil War was an inevitable incident of the 19th century America.
Nonetheless, the underlying themes of these three major historical items of the 19th century influenced Europe and America in the 20th century. And, while peoples failed to address significant issues embedded in these historical items in the 20th century, we now face more complicated historical items of Islam and China.
Western elites have been busy handling Christianity and socialism/communism in Europe and racial issues and building of the free nation in America. But today, they have to deal with foreign issues such as Islam and China. But we have no materials that symbolize these new challenges and that could be comparable to War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
However, it is true that it is the US that is most responsible for handling Islam and China in the historical context. Experiences in Europe might not be effective in tackling these new challenges. It is probably useless to read War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party in addressing these new challenges. Europe cannot solve them. But, the American experiences of its Civil War might have some relevance in efforts to deal with Islam and China.
Anyway, if War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party are part of your intellectual bases and identities, you are part of the 20th century Europe, which is however useless in the 21st century Islam and China.
We might need 21st versions of War and Peace and the Manifesto of the Communist Party to solve the problems caused by Islam and China. Otherwise, the US military power would be the only last resort.
**** **** ****
Mar 5:15 And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
Mar 5:16 And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.
Mar 5:17 And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.