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1126 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 312

... unborn children of murder victims as murder victims themselves. BTW Stalin is the most popular Soviet/Russian leader ever. He was ... Hell, even the relatives of people he killed often like Stalin. I personally know buckets of people in Russia who like Stalin. That personality cult was genuine. ______________________________________________________________

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Author:	Max B. Sawicky
Date:	Mon Apr 21 05:40:19 PDT 2003

1127 [lbo-talk] Heidegger -- rank: 312

... Nazi > cooties" approach. One, while Hitler was not a Heideggerian, Stalin > was in fact a Marxist. I would imagine that the ... Nazi ideology (the race thing), the links > between Marx and Stalin are obvious. Three, while Hitler probably > had only the vaguest ... no influence whatsoever on Hitler's worldview > or actions, everything Stalin did was in Marx's name, both in word > and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 8 10:19:07 PDT 2008

1128 [lbo-talk] Hayekians and other supporters of the market are enemies of the human race -- rank: 312

... other American leftists, but really Charles, this isn't fair. Stalin(ism) is not the same as Marxism or socialism or ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jan 13 10:07:00 PST 2005

1129 [lbo-talk] Why do English speaking folk have penchant for feudal theocracies? -- rank: 312

New Left Review cont. >...Rebellion flared up in Chechnya and Dagestan in 1877 78, this time mobilized primarily by Qadiri Sufi brotherhoods, and was once again brutally suppressed. A relatively quiescent period followed, in which the Chechens remained on the socio-economic margins, and subject to still more severe land hunger ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Nov 8 10:24:43 PST 2005

1130 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 312

> >CB: Again, there is significant circularity to your argument. You assume >part of what is at issue: that what they were "told to say" had no >validity. It had no validity, but it would be quite irrelevant if it did. The view that it is OK to force people to ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Mon Feb 25 11:56:59 PST 2002

1131 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 312

... Lives! When he was living, no such slogan was necessary. Stalin wrapped himself in Lenin's mantel; Trotsky fought for it ... of veneration worshiped in the cult. A living person, like Stalin, who of course had his own cult, or an institution ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Sep 5 19:32:43 PDT 2012

1132 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 312

... Lives! When he was living, no such slogan was necessary. Stalin wrapped himself in Lenin's mantel; Trotsky fought for it ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Sep 5 19:38:27 PDT 2012

1133 [lbo-talk] Sad Leninism. -- rank: 312

... fact, from Gori, which has the only surviving statue of Stalin in the former USSR, standing in the square outside the Stalin Museum that is built around the house where he grew ... Brown <charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > > ^^^ > CB: Stalin was from Geogia, you Stalinitst > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Aug 17 11:35:34 PDT 2008

1134 Dimitrov -- rank: 312

... genoursity. We need to make a great break from the stalin-trotsky opposition and recover a lot of lost material from ...

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Author:	Greg Schofield
Date:	Wed Feb 20 18:19:00 PST 2002

1135 Dimitrov -- rank: 312

... genoursity. We need to make a great break from the stalin-trotsky opposition and recover a lot of lost material from ...

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Author:	Greg Schofield
Date:	Thu Feb 21 00:51:26 PST 2002

1136 [lbo-talk] Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlins Purposes (NY Ti mes) -- rank: 312

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/world/europe/russia-kim-philby-spy-defector.html Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlin s Purposes By ANDREW HIGGINS OCT. 1, 2017 A new portrait of the British double agent Kim Philby, second from right, at a state art gallery ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Tue Oct 3 09:03:53 PDT 2017

1137 [lbo-talk] Slogans Demands etc -- rank: 247

... latter--which, in fact was widely condemned (for example, by Stalin and many genuine "old" Bolsheviks). But which slogan--the one ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Jan 24 08:14:28 PST 2016

1138 [lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the changing nature of reality -- rank: 247

... for a couple years and his theoretical guide was Joseph Stalin. For me, Stalin is not a bogey man, but still, as a theorist ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jan 6 08:24:15 PST 2014

1139 [lbo-talk] Tribute to Nin in Barcelona -- rank: 247

(Below is a report on a remarkable tribute in Barcelona earlier this month to Andreu Nin, the leader of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification) during the Spanish Civil War. The POUM was first brought to the attention of a wider English-speaking audience by George Orwell in Homage ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jun 26 05:45:51 PDT 2013

1140 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 247

... S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > > RE. "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should > > anyone have to say ... police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin and > his posse. O my God, a cage fight between ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Wed Jun 12 18:28:40 PDT 2013