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1066 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 312

... environment. > > > A particularly > >despicable sub-species. Now you understand why Stalin belived > trhat for > >this kind four wall are three too ... many. > > > This part doesn't make sense. Unswerving devotion to Stalin came > from > exactly such people. Perhaps Wojtek's point is that Stalin had no problems dispatching such people whenever it suited him ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Wed Jan 11 09:26:13 PST 2006

1067 [lbo-talk] re The Claremont Institute: Utopia's Victims (Polemic -- rank: 312

chris doss wrote: People didn't tend to blame Stalin's brutalities on Stalin: The Vozhd' was infallible by definition. "If only Stalin knew!" We are talking about a still largely peasant country ...

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Author:	Stephen Philion
Date:	Fri Jan 9 06:14:23 PST 2004

1068 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 312

On 11 Jan 2004 14:07:30 -0500 Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> writes: > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 13:31, Dennis Perrin wrote: > > > What that shows is that Benny Morris is at heart a rather old > > > fashion Labor Zionist. Years ago, it was not uncommon > > > for Labor Zionists ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Jan 11 11:52:38 PST 2004

1069 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 312

On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:52, Jim Farmelant wrote: > On 11 Jan 2004 14:07:30 -0500 Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> writes: > > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 13:31, Dennis Perrin wrote: > > > > What that shows is that Benny Morris is at heart a rather old > > > > fashion ...

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Author:	Travis Fast
Date:	Sun Jan 11 13:05:02 PST 2004

1070 [lbo-talk] Benny Morris -- rank: 312

On 11 Jan 2004 16:05:02 -0500 Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> writes: > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 14:52, Jim Farmelant wrote: > > On 11 Jan 2004 14:07:30 -0500 Travis Fast <tfast at yorku.ca> writes: > > > On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 13:31, Dennis Perrin ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Jan 11 15:10:38 PST 2004

1071 [lbo-talk] Mao: the Unknown Story -- rank: 312

Childish nonsense. Mao was a tyrant and at the end of his life quite mad; he was nota nice man personally. The Great Leap Forward was a disaster, the Cultural Revolution a catasttophe. Nonetheless, Mao left China a vastly better place than when he found it and if there are millions ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat May 28 13:33:25 PDT 2005

1072 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1, Issue 2237 -- rank: 312

This certainly captures the zeitgeist, but I think the psychosis derives from the total mismatch between the (now) official ideology of "Empire" and the complete impossibility of any such real Empire now and in the future. Empire is simply not a possibility for America, ever. Hence, Empire is the leading metaphor ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed Jan 21 12:38:37 PST 2004

1073 [lbo-talk] Query on popular badasses -- rank: 312

Chriss: > Stalin is quite popular in Russia (I do not want to ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Mon Oct 18 08:31:19 PDT 2004

1074 [lbo-talk] Michael Moore and Richard Perle Combine Forces: -- rank: 312

... critique of Lenin's, "State and Revolution, " last night. In Stalin's speeches against the Opposition http://ptb.lashout.net/marx2mao/Stalin/OTOtc.html (some choice verbiage by JVS III.An Incredible ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jul 12 11:26:29 PDT 2004

1075 [lbo-talk] NYT obituary: Alexander Zinoviev, 83, Changeable Russian Author, Dies -- rank: 312

I am so depressed by this. ;( This is way better than I expected from the NYT. New York Times May 15, 2006 obituary Alexander Zinoviev, 83, Changeable Russian Author, Dies By DOUGLAS MARTIN Alexander Zinoviev, a philosopher turned popular author who won wide repute for his savage satires of Soviet society ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 15 07:27:29 PDT 2006

1076 [lbo-talk] Re: Yakov Sverdlov -- rank: 312

... in question, but I have read Radzinsky's books on Stalin and Rasputin, and he does a lot of attributions to ... I'm just not going to tell you about." His Stalin book says Stalin was planning to start WWIII. He's not a really ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Apr 3 04:20:41 PDT 2006

1077 [lbo-talk] Professor Lisa at Tortilla Flats -- rank: 312

Many people's definition of what it means to be an American closely orbits around a tightly packed sphere of vague concepts: idealized simplicity, anti-internationalism, very basic religiosity, de-ethnicized Whiteness and oceans of sentimentality but almost no melancholy of the contemplative sort (and when the human situation is considered ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Apr 6 21:19:53 PDT 2006

1078 [lbo-talk] Heideggering with grapplers (a petit reflection on strange attractors) -- rank: 312

Once upon a time there was Stalin...not the actually existing Stalin per se but Stalin the contentious LBO debating topic. And now there's Heidegger ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Wed May 10 10:58:29 PDT 2006

1079 [lbo-talk] Re: Vive La France! - Kremlin headache, Kremlin opportunity -- rank: 312

... A GEORGIAN. Who's still got a giant statue of Stalin in a public place? GEORGIA. Who, according to people I ... tourists recently, are still passing out guidebooks on the Great Stalin? GEORGIANS. Where is the Stalin Museum located? GEORGIA. According to the Guardian, on Dutch radio ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 30 14:15:45 PDT 2005

1080 Rebuttal of anti-Communism -- rank: 312

... in that sense. But it disturbs me when people like Stalin are praised in the process. After all, what are we after? Stalin may have flattened the income distribution, but his record on ... used to tell the story that Zinoviev and Kamenev judged Stalin's >seizure of power to be a f

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Author:	Brett Knowlton
Date:	Thu Oct 15 09:52:15 PDT 1998