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1051 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 312

... t think politically alike. Many > Russians, to this day, > think Stalin is a greater leader than Lenin or > Gorbachev and they > apparently prefer Peter I and Alexander II to Stalin > (cf. > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-January/000801 ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Tue Oct 17 05:28:25 PDT 2006

1052 [lbo-talk] Anti-communism -- rank: 312

Carroll C writes: > Thomas Seay wrote: >> >> However, my question is ... even if we take into account >> that there is never going to be a utopia, did the SU >> measure up to even modest expectations as to what a >> socialist state should be?> > > And that is a utopian question if I ever ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Mon May 23 15:07:17 PDT 2005

1053 [lbo-talk] Re: Consumer goods (Back to the USSR) -- rank: 312

At 10:42 AM +0200 10/2/04, Tahir Wood wrote: >Bill, this would not be 100% correct either - there certainly was a >measure of capitalist development despite the predominance of feudal >relations in the countryside. In other words Russia was in a >transitionary phase and this was reflected in the ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Tue Feb 10 04:55:21 PST 2004

1054 [lbo-talk] Please remove me from Ibo-Talk -- rank: 312

Please remove my name and email address from Ibo-Talk. I am receiving way too many emails. At least 100 a day. Thank you. Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> wrote: At 10:42 AM +0200 10/2/04, Tahir Wood wrote: >Bill, this would not be 100% correct either ...

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Author:	Christine Churchill Kenneth
Date:	Tue Feb 10 05:15:44 PST 2004

1055 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 312

... At some workplaces employees tore down or defaced portraits of Stalin. Meanwhile Stalin's defenders were at least as vociferous. In Georgia the republic leaders imposed martial law after pro-Stalin riots on the anniversary of the dictator's death. Soviet ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Oct 16 08:44:17 PDT 2006

1056 [lbo-talk] Re: Also Sprach Djugashvili -- rank: 312

--- Turbulo at aol.com wrote: > Stalin said some pithier things than the ones cited > by Montefiori ... anecdotes. For instance, on the eve of the Nazi invasion, Stalin mocked Hitler by putting on a production of The Ride ... forcing Ribbentrop to toast to Jewish members of the Politburo. Stalin on Hitler: I agree that he was an adventurer but ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Nov 21 05:55:43 PST 2004

1057 [lbo-talk] Hamas "a project of Shin Bet" (was: Hezbollah vs IDF) -- rank: 312

... most Western political discourse. Many > Russians, to this day, > think Stalin is a greater leader than Lenin or > Gorbachev and they > apparently prefer Peter I and Alexander II to Stalin > (cf. > <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2005/2005-January/000801 ... t get enough credit (he liberated the serfs, after all). Stalin's posthumous rep keeps going up and up while Lenin ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Oct 16 07:32:30 PDT 2006

1058 [lbo-talk] For some people . . . -- rank: 312

Stalin may not have said it, but I just bought a collection of Stalin-era jokes and anecdotes. I can translate some of them ... wish. Some are quite funny. > > I don't care if Stalin said it or not: for some > people, four walls . . . > > > - - - - - - - - - - > John ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Oct 29 14:04:30 PDT 2005

1059 [lbo-talk] Re: theism, atheism and dont give a fuckism -- rank: 312

Hi Peter, You write: "Thus, considering your love for Stalin and the Soviet Union found on his list," I think we must have a misunderstanding problem. I think Stalin was a horrifically brutal modernizing dictator like Peter the Great ... people with that value system. Where does the love for Stalin thing come from? Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jun 1 14:57:00 PDT 2005

1060 [lbo-talk] Magnitogorsk -- rank: 312

Stalin's steel bastion shapes up to new reality 19 Jul ...

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Author:	John Norem
Date:	Tue Jul 19 15:29:11 PDT 2005

1061 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 312

... remembered for the following passage: > > >"The publication in 1952 of Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism >in the USSR would make ... possible today a more satisfactory reply.ŠIn >the light of [Stalin's] explanationŠI would like to amend the >statement which ... original wording and is, >I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view." (Paul Sweezy (1953), >The Present as History (New ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 29 18:45:52 PST 2004

1062 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 312

>Brad, that you think apologetics for Stalin represents Sweezy's >life, and is the thing to single ... and refined by contact with the thought of J.V. Stalin. I think that the _Theory of Capitalist Development_ (1942) is ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Sun Feb 29 23:47:32 PST 2004

1063 [lbo-talk] The Claremont Institute: Utopia's Victims (Polemic against The Nation pwoggies, the gist.) -- rank: 312

Neo-Con quarterly book review. The F. Furet book, btw, is excellent. Esp. the chapter on anti-fascism and the Comintern. <URL: http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/winter2003/alexander.html > > ... *** If it's difficult to decide which mass murder was worse, we should probably place them in a single roomy ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Jan 7 10:43:50 PST 2004

1064 [lbo-talk] The Claremont Institute: Utopia's Victims (Polemicagainst The Nation pwoggies, the gist.) -- rank: 312

... Vozhd' Building Communism. I get goosebumbs standing outside Moscow's Stalin buildings because they are so breath-taking; can you imagine ... We're building a new civilization!" Thewhole country cried when Stalin died, 10% from joy and the rest from grief. Of course attitudes toward Stalin are very different in different parts of the fSU; he ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jan 8 04:52:51 PST 2004

1065 [lbo-talk] The Claremont Institute: Utopia's Victims (Polemic -- rank: 312

... in the >> passive construction." >> >> >> Yes you could. Most people under Stalin did not experience those >> things. Stalin was very popular. >> > > Before WWII? Didn't all the Gallop 30s polls, like the US in occupied Iraq, show Stalin doing really well? :-) john mage

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Thu Jan 8 06:50:25 PST 2004