ABSTRACT
The expression ‘interdependence’ is frequently and appositely used by Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, not only in his theoretical discourse on the modern world but also in his popular rhetoric. The Marxist root of Gorbachev’s idea of interdependence can be said to be the explicitly proclaimed internationalism of Marxism as a whole. Gorbachev was and is the exponent of the idea that the conditions should be drastically restructured and that what was needed first, in view of the information revolution, was freedom of information. Gorbachev’s patrons were his immediate chief, the Central Committee secretary for agricultural affairs, Kulakov, who came from the same region, and who was considered to be a rival of Brezhnev’s and one of his possible successors. The only optimistic, if not Utopian part of Gorbachev’s otherwise realistic discourse was his idea that ‘distinctions will remain’. Gorbachev’s visit to Washington at the beginning of June 1990 was a triumph for the diplomacy of interdependence.
