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1021 East Timor as a UN Colony -- rank: 312

* See, for instance, Stalin, "Marxism and the National Question" at <http://gate.cruzio.com/~marx2mao/Stalin/MNQ12.html>: Kinda like the correspondence between, "State and Revolution ... Austro-Marxists are better writers on the National Question, anyway. Stalin cribbed his stuff from them, no? Michael Pugliese P.S ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Apr 25 08:01:38 PDT 2000

1022 East Timor as a UN Colony -- rank: 312

Eric: >Yoshie wrote: > > >We should have _clearly_ opposed "peace-keepers" and argued against > >the ETAN, Australian unionists, etc. that called for an imperial > >military intervention. An unpopular position among liberals & > >leftists at that time, yes, but we should have. > >So that tens of thousands more East Timorese could have been killed ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Apr 24 17:52:10 PDT 2000

1023 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 312

... S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > RE. "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should anyone have > to say more? > > [WS:] This analogy is plain wrong. Joe Stalin did not have to *gather* > information. He and his security ... police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin and his posse. The main concern with the NSA thingy ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jun 12 15:14:58 PDT 2013

1024 [lbo-talk] Your letter to Amy Goodman -- rank: 312

... Tibetan theocracy is not like blaming Marx and Marxism for Stalin. It is like blaming Stalin for Stalin. I'm genuinely curious as to which crimes you want ...

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Author:	Christian Gregory
Date:	Sat Sep 27 09:30:16 PDT 2003

1025 [lbo-talk] Your letter to Amy Goodman -- rank: 312

... Tibetan theocracy is not > like blaming Marx and Marxism for Stalin. It is like > blaming Stalin for > Stalin. > > I'm genuinely curious as to which crimes you want ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sat Sep 27 09:51:16 PDT 2003

1026 [lbo-talk] Carrol's Tibet lunacy -- rank: 312

... Tibetan theocracy is not like blaming Marx and Marxism for Stalin. It is like blaming Stalin for Stalin." Carrol, how old was the Dalai Lama when he left ...

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Author:	boddhisatva
Date:	Sat Sep 27 16:55:06 PDT 2003

1027 [lbo-talk] Mussolini, Trotskyist -- rank: 312

... it, taking ships instead of planes and so forth and Stalin (never being one to be overly trusting) saw the writing ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Fri Sep 30 14:59:57 PDT 2005

1028 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 312

Ted said: >As I indicated, this point is also made in the Civil War in France. It >remains necessary at the beginning of the "socialist" phase of the >transition to the "realm of freedom" to have a "state," i.e. a capacity to >use coercive force to implement and defend the ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue May 11 12:41:56 PDT 2004

1029 [lbo-talk] Re:Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 312

Brian said: >(To save clogging mailboxes and use up only a single post of my daily >quota, >I respond to Todd, Shane, and Charles below) Heh! Good idea. Kudos on getting the e-mail fixed so I don't have to scroll sideways. >MUAH!< >Todd asks: >>Was the consequence of putting ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Wed May 12 13:40:30 PDT 2004

1030 [lbo-talk] Rose revolution redux -- rank: 312

Just as an aside, I don't think praising Stalin is automatically a negative sign in Georgia. He's a ... follow in the long tradition of strong Georgian leaders "like Stalin and Beria". Saakashvili started his march on Tbilisi last November with a rally in front of the statue of Stalin in his birthplace, Gori. Unfazed, the western media continue to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 06:50:04 PST 2004

1031 [lbo-talk] Kerry Heckled for Opposing Withdrawal of US Troops -- rank: 312

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 01:29:13 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote: > > During a question-and-answer session with the audience, retired college > professor Walter Daum angrily accused Kerry of backing an imperialist > policy in Iraq and called on the candidate to demand the immediate > withdrawal ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Apr 16 07:11:16 PDT 2004

1032 [lbo-talk] Internationale -- rank: 312

... s website, you will see them > be rather soft on Stalin. It's Khrushchev who is the main target of > their ... the 1960s. Just as his liberalizations represented a break with Stalin's policies, so did his antireligious campaign. Jim F. > > Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > In WW II, Stalin made lots of concessions to old fashion > Russian nationalism. That ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Apr 18 07:50:50 PDT 2004

1033 [lbo-talk] Surpassing the Gulag in Scale -- rank: 312

Humongous coffee table (the size of a small table) book I perused at one of the branches of the Jefferson Co. Public Library system. My respect for librarians suffered a jolt, Sunday, when two librarians at the Denver Public Library, who I asked to look up the shelf location since all ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Jun 21 05:19:30 PDT 2005

1034 [lbo-talk] Soviet Union had plans for first use of N-weapons in Europe -- rank: 312

... by Vojtech Mastny The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity The Stalin Years Vojtech Mastny Oxford U.Press. [This book offers] a peerless account of [Stalin's] blunders in foreign affairs....Mastny presents the most informative and richly documented account we have of Stalin's dealings with Mao Zedong, Kim Il Sung, Josip Broz ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue May 17 11:47:22 PDT 2005

1035 Fwd: Why did the USSR fall? -- rank: 312

This article is, I think, relevant to the current discussion on the economic viability of central planning. Originally from Lou Proyect. > >From Dollars and Sense Magazine: WHY DID THE USSR FALL? > >THE PARTY ELITE, NOT THE MASSES, WANTED CAPITALISM > >By David Kotz and Fred Weir > >David Kotz teaches economics at the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Apr 24 08:09:09 PDT 2000