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1171 [lbo-talk] as if on cue -- rank: 247

... a Bolshevik," Lenin growled, "and find a Great Russian chauvinist." Stalin's formula is filled with error but still not a bad place tos start. Carrol ^^^^^ CB: The Bolshevik Stalin was a Georgian, of course, so not a Great Russian ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Feb 3 11:18:08 PST 2011

1172 [lbo-talk] Diana Johnstone: A Fitting Obit for Holbrooke -- rank: 247

... to describe him as a "monster" comparable to Hitler and Stalin. This was rank ingratitude, considering that Holbrooke owed his greatest ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Wed Feb 2 15:26:05 PST 2011

1173 [lbo-talk] as if on cue -- rank: 247

... a Bolshevik," Lenin growled, "and find a Great Russian chauvinist." > Stalin's formula is filled with error but still not a ... on cue > > The Left's Devil's definition of nation: > > Stalin's definition of a nation was: "A nation is an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 13:39:23 PST 2011

1174 [lbo-talk] as if on cue -- rank: 247

... a Bolshevik," Lenin growled, "and find a Great Russian chauvinist." Stalin's formula is filled with error but still not a ... on cue The Left's Devil's definition of nation: Stalin's definition of a nation was: "A nation is an ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Feb 2 13:25:49 PST 2011

1175 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 247

... the dead? > Hitchens once said, dismissing the facile equivalence of Stalin and Hitler, that with Stalin there was the feeling that he was betraying something. I ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Fri Dec 16 12:00:04 PST 2011

1176 [lbo-talk] My Letter To CH -- rank: 247

... the dead? Hitchens once said, dismissing the facile equivalence of Stalin and Hitler, that with Stalin there was the feeling that he was betraying something. I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 16 11:45:55 PST 2011

1177 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 247

... Hitchens once said before he went bad. Rejecting the facile Stalin = Hitler comparison, Hitch said, "With Stalin, one gets the feeling he was betraying something. Not Hitler ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:53:36 PST 2011

1178 [lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier -- rank: 247

... there was no worse, > more party-bureaucratic, body than the Stalin-controlled Workers > and Peasants Inspection. I know that, Shane. That ... trial and error. If the WPI got co-opted by Stalin, the solution wasn't to abandon any effort to oversee ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Thu Aug 18 10:43:03 PDT 2011

1179 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Union Versus Socialism - Noam Chomsky -- rank: 247

... society created by Lenin and Trotsky and molded further by Stalin and his successors has some relation to socialism in some ... how much better Lenin/Trotsky might have done. As for Stalin, that's a different question. My favorite definition of socialism ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Sat Apr 30 21:53:55 PDT 2011

1180 [lbo-talk] Overrated writers -- rank: 247

Gosh, is the history of the right that much of a secret? Doug ----------- Some long musings... The point is the history of the right is an eternal theme No it's not secret, but it's hard to tease out in retrospect. It's not just the specific works, but when ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Apr 25 16:57:00 PDT 2011

1181 [lbo-talk] `The Manchurian President -- rank: 247

... Comrade Mauser http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Left_March .) Since Stalin's approach of four walls being three too many for ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Fri Sep 10 11:01:47 PDT 2010

1182 [lbo-talk] Enthusiasm -- rank: 247

... the reat populist Huey Long, not from the sympathizers with Stalin. Shane Mage True and not true. John L. Lewis headed ...

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Author:	turbulo at aol.com
Date:	Sat Oct 30 17:37:16 PDT 2010

1183 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 247

On Nov 7, 2010, at 4:04 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > > This is exactly why I share Carrol's lack of patience for parsing > people's political motives. In terms of the political and social > effects of O's administration, O's motivations and intentions are > irrelevant. --A crude analogy: a ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Nov 7 13:39:55 PST 2010

1184 [lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem -- rank: 247

... the Soviet Union that persisted until it was suppressed by Stalin. Although, years later, some of these debates were revisited during ...

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Author:	farmelantj at juno.com
Date:	Tue May 4 06:30:07 PDT 2010

1185 [lbo-talk] Weird Cultural Mutants -- rank: 247

... released an album entirely of covers of songs by the Stalin-era singer Vadim Kozin: http://thequietus.com/articles/02691-marc ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Mar 3 13:43:36 PST 2010