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1141 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 247

... 11:07 AM, Wojtek S 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 ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Jun 12 08:23:49 PDT 2013

1142 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 247

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 ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jun 12 08:07:15 PDT 2013

1143 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 247

Words that seem to be mine below are Ira Glazer's. Just saying. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-07-17, at 3:35 PM, JOANNA A. wrote: > > > I think it's racism (under capitalism). A social safety net ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Thu Jul 18 04:45:40 PDT 2013

1144 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 247

... 07-17/foodstamps-are-corporate-welfare > > Is Chomsky right -- did Stalin do such irreparable harm to the prestige of > socialist thought ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jul 17 19:00:21 PDT 2013

1145 [lbo-talk] Asshole NYTimes reporter says Berliners have been spoiled by low rents -- rank: 247

... t make a lot of sense, stuff about it blaming Stalin for starting WW2, and Charles Darwin being a communist. I ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Thu Feb 21 19:39:33 PST 2013

1146 [lbo-talk] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy -- rank: 247

``At first, I thought that the youth involved in the Occupy movement in the U.S. was uninterested in this historical experience, but over time I've had to revise my belief. There's a tremendous excitement and interest in re-examining all this, even if -- sometimes -- ...people rush to ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Sep 29 23:47:53 PDT 2012

1147 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 247

... well the history of the lead-up to the Hitler-Stalin pact (if that's what you're referring to), but ...

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Author:	Mark DeLucas
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:46:48 PDT 2012

1148 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 247

Ravi: "Stalin struck a deal with Hitler, going against the West" [WS ... Germany_and_the_Soviet_Union I heard a story that Stalin staunchly refused to believe that the Nazis would turn against ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Fri Sep 28 11:32:19 PDT 2012

1149 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 247

Georg Lukács 1962 Reflections on the Cult of Stalin http://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1962/stalin.htm ^^^^

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Sep 6 09:12:45 PDT 2012

1150 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 247

andie_nachgeborenen The term cult of personality was an old commonplace in radical discourse, farolder thn Khushchev. Marx uses it, Bakunin used it about Marx. Whatever you want to call what the Soviets and other Stalinists did with Lenin, it was a lot like a cult of personality. ^^^^ CB: Well, I ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Sep 6 08:58:55 PDT 2012

1151 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 247

... com> wrote: > John Wesley > > Probably not too far from where Stalin lies, since his > "demausoleumization". Mike G > > ^^^^^ > CB: Yes, right up ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Sep 5 16:52:54 PDT 2012

1152 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 247

John Wesley Probably not too far from where Stalin lies, since his "demausoleumization". Mike G ^^^^^ CB: Yes, right up ... heard his statues were taken down. He said, "No, only Stalin's".

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Sep 5 08:53:47 PDT 2012

1153 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 247

Who was Leon Trotsky? > http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-was-leon-trotsky.html > > thoughts? > -- > -Nathan Tankus -------------------- Great Wednesday morning read and half hour of an interview. And it wonders, pretty much what I wondered all the while reading Trotsky...what if this guy had won? I think the fact ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Oct 17 09:41:04 PDT 2012

1154 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 247

O.K. I'm not sure I agree with all of this, but Marv's post does (a) take my question seriously and (b) respond in relevant terms. It can be the basis for discussion in a way earlier posts on the topic were not. I'm sorry I used a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 11 13:02:54 PDT 2012

1155 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 247

On 2012-10-11, at 10:28 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My original question did not refer to the Soviet Union but to use of the > word to label parties or individuals in the capitalist world. Was the French > Communist Party in (say) 1968 a "Stalinist Party"? If it was, what ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Oct 11 12:50:59 PDT 2012