1967 Zbigniew Brzezinski at Carleton University -Gives Marxist Lecture January 24 1967
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Article about Zbigniew Brzezinski\u2019s Jan 1967 presentation during meeting held at Carleton
University School of International Affairs.
The previous days article - by the same
reporter- described the meeting as \u201cclosed,\u201d but the address by Brzezinski \u201cof
the United States Department of State\u201d was \u201con-the record\u201d
In this article, clipped from the Jan 24, 1967 Ottawa Journal, Zbigniew
Brzezinski is quoted from the lecture he gave at the School of International
Affairs at Carleton University, including what he perceived as Soviet fears of a Chinese-American alliance during his \u201crecent private conversations in Moscow\u201d and
spoke about building cooperation with the Soviets and creating a world
co-operative of communities. He said the "East Europeans and the Russians, increasingly describe China as Fascist" He said the West should not pose satellite
countries against Russia. He claimed that \u201cMarxism is a child of our own
tradition\u201d and that "It is up to us to point with with confidence to the emergence of a new Europe, one which can link America and Russia in a co-operative endeavor" He said that from his planned process would emerge
\u201csemi-dictatorships of increasingly Socialist character (and of less Communist
dictatorial kind), including more internal social pluralism\u201d and said \u201cI think
Yugoslavia [Tito] is a relevant pioneer\u201d and
pointed to the Social Democratic parties of \u201c60 years ago\u201d as an example of
forcing adjustments as means to his goals. He held up the deceptive trend in the Communist movement of reaching out to Christians as a way to gain more support and approved of the deception as "factor of change, influencing perspectives and shaping attitudes."
Clipped from
The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
24 Jan 1967, Tue \u2022 Page 6
A Quiet U.S. View:
Proceed to Peace, Slowly
A MAN very influential in the planning of United
States foreign policy spoke at Carleton University Friday evening to a group of
history professors and historians, and members of the Department of External
Affairs.
Dr. K. Z. Brzezinski brought cheer to the Canadians not only by what he said
but because of the richness and courage of his mind. His speech, aptly termed
by one listener, "a concentration of thought." was free of the
clichés of approach that have hindered diplomacy these last two decades.
"Through time, man's self-identification
and his perception of the world around him has moved from family to city to
province to nation and now increasingly to regional cooperation. The creation
of a world of co-operative communities is the real imperative of our search for
a stable peace. Today, for the first time in the history of mankind, our world
is united by fear. We have to do better than that."
In the past, Dr. Brzezinski recalled at the
meeting which was reported in this space yesterday, alliances of nations had
served to wage war, in our age they deter war: tomorrow they must shift
collectively to the promotion of peace. The best course for Europe, he said,
would be for all of its nations gradually to co-operate in an ever-closer
Western unity.
NOTHING much new in that, a reader might say. But this man whose sphere of
influence in American policy is that of Eastern Europe went on to say that the
United States had no wish to see created in Europe a replica of the United
States. "We are aware of the enormous cultural diversity, the linguistic
wealth, the historical variety of the European peoples. It would be a continental
mosaic, the richer for diversity, the stronger for its unity."A united Europe could be a strong competitor of the United States, but that
risk "is lesser than the maintenance of old national antipathies. There is
simply no room in contemporary Europe" he went on, "for the anarchy
of an international order based on the supremacy of the national ego."
Dr. Brzezinski was of course aware that Russia's
attitude, towards all this could be crucial. But he advised patience and
constructive building towards co-operation, not headlong pressure. He saw
President Johnson's aim as "an engagement to a process of change, not a
quest for immediate settlement." The West should not try to pose the
satellite countries against Russia. "Some East European countries can act
as transmission belts by moving ahead of the Soviet Union, not for the purpose
of separating themselves entirely from the Soviet Union, but rather for the
purpose of promoting a different kind of East-West relationship."
It was that open-eyed willingness (evident
in his manner no less than his words) to try to work out a gradual development,
a process of change in Europe and the world that won for Dr. Brzezinski an
attentive and admiring hearing. Of course, the West hopes to see the eventual
end to the negative aspects of communism and the Soviet Union's version of
imperialism. But Dr. Brzezinski seems to be counselling the President to see
the task in terms of an evolution of history rather than an explosion of arms
or economic weaponry.
THE most fitting close to this article is a portion of Dr. Brzezinski's own
contemplation of the best way to the future.
Dr. Brzezinski:
\u201cEventually, through such processes of growing
together these societies may be transformed into something more compatible from
our point of view. I personally doubt that they will converge with the West in
the sense of acquiring identical political systems, or indeed, even similar
political systems: But they could become, through this" process,
semi-dictatorships of increasingly Socialist character (and of less Communist
dictatorial kind), including more internal social pluralism. Here I think
Yugoslavia is a relevant pioneer.
The Sino-Soviet dispute, moreover, has had an accelerating impact on this
process. The East Europeans and the Russians, increasingly describe China as
Fascist, and the Russians, in my private recent conversations in Moscow, were
already fearful of what may seem to be a fanciful illusion, fearful of a
Chinese-American alliance directed against them. But even though this may
fanciful, it could have, cumulatively, a Europeanizing impact on them: it
encourages a process of de-radicalization, encourages a process of adjusting to
existing realities, forces them in the direction of ideological ecumenism. This
was the historical experience of the Social Democratic parties, and we should
not forget that 60 years ago the Social Democratic parties were most
revolutionary parties Europe; today they are hardly revolutionary.
Roger Garaudy, a member the French Central Committee, in his concluding
remarks, addressed to the Christians, at a Christian-Marxist Colloquium, said
the following: "Without us Communists, I fear that your Christian love,
marvellous, would continue not to be efficacious, but without you Christians,
our struggle risks being enclosed in a horizon without stars." This, I
think, is a rather eloquent statement, expressing a certain trend within the
Communist movement. Some of is purely expediential, calculated to gain greater
popular support, but even so, as of itself, it becomes a factor change,
influencing perspectives and shaping attitudes.
As we look ahead at the kind of problems man and society face in the course of
the next several decades, it becomes clear that none of the existing
ideological systems are relevant and pertinent to our needs. It is therefore
increasingly important particularly for the West, which has always been the
pioneer in human thought, to look beyond the past, to look over ideological
cleavages and to begin to emphasize what really unites the more developed
nations of the East and the West. In the final analysis, we must not forget
that Marxism is a child of our own tradition; it is up to us point with
confidence to the emergence of a new Europe, one which can link America and
Russia in a co-operative endeavor and one which is no longer divided within
itself.\u201d
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