oh vladimir nabokov! i can't believe you got it wrong! how could you? perhaps because you never saw the world from outside, outside of both communism and capitalism, outside of the unites states and soviet union, outside of black and white. poor you, perhaps you never had an idea what globalisation is or would be. there was no concept of globalisation then, were there?
anyways, you know what, you great man, your worst fear about communism -- that it will create a flat world without the mountains and the valleys, without oceans and rivers, perhaps a flat water world (sorry, i don't know how exactly you imagined it) -- is coming true but not because of communism -- it's as good as dead, that most logical philosophy -- but through globalisation.
can't comprehend? just take a world tour. you'll find the same people everywhere, buying and selling the same stuff, demanding the same comforts, providing the same facilities. we're all now global consumers and we all demand global standards -- the best services, the best roads, the best accommodation, the best food, the best wine...
those who have them are developed, those who are building them are developing, and those who doesn't have them and are not building them are out of the global map.
any question?
