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1201 [lbo-talk] french love of thugs (with style) -- rank: 247

... Anti-Communist Russians Countless Prisoners Of War Handed Back To Stalin By Churchill From John Whitley It wasn't just Ike ... to hand over anti-Communist Russian prisoners of war to Stalin after the war. Since he was too widely admired and ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Sat Nov 14 18:46:07 PST 2009

1202 [lbo-talk] State capitalism, or the real thing -- rank: 247

... industrialisation commissioned by the outlay of capital. The answer, after Stalin's suppression of the N.E.P. is no, it ... not a question of moral disapproval (or approval) of what Stalin did, but a scientific question of how we analyse the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri May 29 13:50:29 PDT 2009

1203 [lbo-talk] Mao, Mao, Mao Tse-Tung, Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win! -- rank: 247

Apparently, the PL had a reputation for being dogmatic quoters of all things Mao, which led to a point at which RYM decided to score some points by mocking them. When the PL opposed the REd Guard talk "fifty people from the Michigan and Ohio collectives stood up, waving copies of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri May 8 11:21:00 PDT 2009

1204 [lbo-talk] "I like rightists" -- rank: 247

... the bureaucracy in the Soviet Union following the death of Stalin, versus the situation that faced the Chinese bureaucracy following the ... were seeking stability. The Soviet bureaucracy had suffered greatly under Stalin and so greeted Khrushchev's ascension into power with enthusiasm ...

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Author:	farmelantj at juno.com
Date:	Wed May 6 08:04:26 PDT 2009

1205 [lbo-talk] I like rightists -- rank: 247

Before Mao vouchsafing for Nixon, there was Stalin on the Nazi party: 'Don't you think Neumann, that ... that we would be free to build socialism in peace?' Stalin to Heinz Neumann, November 1931 Epoliticus writes: 'Condemn the post ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed May 6 06:28:45 PDT 2009

1206 [lbo-talk] paranoia -- rank: 247

BRAVO! You get a virtual cookie. These problems exist because Stalin invaded what is now Western Ukraine (which is very anti ... It's the same reason Georgia is so fucked up. Stalin decided to attach South Ossetia to the place, dividing it ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 19 18:56:50 PDT 2009

1207 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 247

... to refer to the political system either during or after Stalin. "Stalinskii" is a word generally applied to architecture. Two, nobody ... rabid anti-Communist, believes that the USSR, during or after Stalin, was devoid of personal or political freedoms. Curtailed, yes. Devoid ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jun 17 06:28:39 PDT 2009

1208 [lbo-talk] State capitalism, or the real thing -- rank: 247

Whether capitalism exists or has existed anywhere in the strict technical sense is questionable. But if one wants to call the modern US economy capitalist then I think calling the Soviet economy capitalist or state capitalist or whatever is legitimate since both economies have a significant amount in common. But more ...

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Author:	Peter Ward
Date:	Mon Jun 1 16:31:40 PDT 2009

1209 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

... thought they had (which turned out to be true). > > > Yeah. Stalin publicly criticized collectivization for being implemented > too > brutally too. > > >> (Collecivization actually hurt Soviet agriculture, but neither Trotsky or >> Stalin knew that was going to happen.) > > > Well, it reduced agricultural ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Aug 13 07:42:27 PDT 2009

1210 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

... thought they had (which turned out to be true). Yeah. Stalin publicly criticized collectivization for being implemented too brutally too. > (Collecivization actually hurt Soviet agriculture, but neither Trotsky or > Stalin knew that was going to happen.) Well, it reduced agricultural ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Thu Aug 13 07:18:04 PDT 2009

1211 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

... famine of course was used as a political tool by Stalin... and >> collectivization would have been handled in an entirely different ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:55:30 PDT 2009

1212 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

Stalin didn't engage in a planned famine either. IIRC at ... of the famine (at least in Ukraine) was concealed from Stalin by the CP head of Ukraine (who ws later executed ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Aug 13 06:35:04 PDT 2009

1213 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

The "socialism in one country" thing depends on a bunch of different questions. If your analysis of imperialism is such that you think the world is one big economy, and that the workers of Europe and the settler nations are paid off, then waiting for the first world to revolt is ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Thu Aug 13 05:51:48 PDT 2009

1214 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist? -- rank: 247

... forward. The vast majority (80%+) of the deaths during the Stalin period were a direct, albeit unintended, result of the breakneck ... authoritarianism (which was an effect not a cause) but on > Stalin's adoption of the policy

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Aug 13 05:21:16 PDT 2009

1215 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 247

... to blame Trotsky for Stalinism? Because Trotsky's reputation as Stalin's main opponent is intact. As we speak, I am ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 27 01:35:38 PDT 2009