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1216 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 247

Robert Wood writes: "What I have found fascinating with this conversation is that the option that Trotsky was a profoundly contradictory individual seems to be off the table." Exactly. But this might be a bit overwhelming for most of the intelligentia. Orwell has some interesting comments about this in "Inside the ...

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Author:	Joanna
Date:	Sun Apr 26 22:41:21 PDT 2009

1217 [lbo-talk] Trotsky's ashes made into cookies -- rank: 247

... I find Lenin if anything a more frightening personality than Stalin. Stalin was understandable because he was a sociopathic thug. Lenin was ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Fri Apr 24 18:30:23 PDT 2009

1218 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 247

Great, post-communist (hyper capitalist) China and Vietnam and oil-rich Venezuela are going to help save world capitalism because they'd be taken down in the wreckage if we fell, and they can't afford to let us fall because the Asians are capitalist now and the Venezuelans, despite fiery ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Oct 12 18:23:11 PDT 2008

1219 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 247

... PM > I think it makes more sense to view the Stalin period as > being characterized by a industrial modernization project > using ... yahoo.com> wrote: > > > > > > I do not think this was because Stalin and Mao were > > monsters, your words not mine, although they ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Oct 12 14:54:10 PDT 2008

1220 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 247

I think it makes more sense to view the Stalin period as being characterized by a industrial modernization project using ... yahoo.com> wrote: > > I do not think this was because Stalin and Mao were > monsters, your words not mine, although they ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Oct 12 14:21:08 PDT 2008

1221 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 247

... ilstu.edu> wrote: > > > andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > > > I was thinking of Stalin and Mao, et al. > > Oour triumphs are triumphs of collective ... who are easily slotted into a category. Andie's personalization ("Stalin and Mao the monsters") is merely the flipside of "Jews ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Oct 12 07:52:03 PDT 2008

1222 [lbo-talk] David Brooks, so worried -- rank: 247

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > I was thinking of Stalin and Mao, et al. Oour triumphs are triumphs of collective ... nuclear weapons falling in North Vietnam or China). And while Stalin's preparing Russia for the German assault was of immense ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Oct 12 06:30:41 PDT 2008

1223 [lbo-talk] obama's end run around the democratic party? -- rank: 247

... wrote: > The Bolsheviks never supported Kerensky > (although the police infiltrator Stalin > had supported Kerensky's predecessor, > Prince Lvov, before Lenin returned ... Russia. Trotsky was also abroad and not yet a Bolshevik. Stalin *was* a Bolshevik on the ground. Lenin was caught by ...

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Author:	Julio Huato
Date:	Sun Nov 9 20:05:39 PST 2008

1224 [lbo-talk] A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin -- rank: 247

... buildings. When Wendy was here, I was staying in a Stalin building -- I'm sure she can tell you the difference ... Currently I'm in a building built in the '90s.) Stalin-era stuff is much better than later stuff, for some ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Nov 3 10:26:04 PST 2008

1225 [lbo-talk] Picasso and Einstein1 -- rank: 247

Chuck wrote >Many of these guys came here in the 1930s (right along with >the architects, designers, writers, filmakers, painters, musicians and >philosophers) and helped develop the US military industrial complex, >nuclear weapons of course, but also helped bring US math and science >higher education up to speed. Yes, Konrad Wachsmann ...

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Author:	moominek at aol.com
Date:	Mon Nov 3 01:14:09 PST 2008

1226 [lbo-talk] Hammer & Tickle: A History of Communism Told Through Communist Jokes by Ben Lewis -- rank: 247

... draw a sharp dividing line between the Staln and post-Stalin eras. Telling a joke about Stalin could have very unpleasant consequences, while jokes about Brezhnev and ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 1 03:17:01 PDT 2008

1227 [lbo-talk] Re: dustup (José Luis Galbe Loshuertos) -- rank: 247

... out with Galbe. I had long arguments with him over Stalin and the Soviet Union... ================================== Interesting sketch. Who was the one favouring Stalin? :)

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Jul 23 03:36:02 PDT 2008

1228 [lbo-talk] Heidegger -- rank: 247

... this very argument made by Marxists applied to the Marx/Stalin problem ("OH NOES! Evil stuff was carried out in the ... abyss opens beneath my feet! Time to rationalize and justify! Stalin wasn't REALLY a Marxist!"). Anyway, I think this whole ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 9 01:32:59 PDT 2008

1229 [lbo-talk] Volga roadtrip -- rank: 247

... ended his days as a, perhaps reluctant, apologist for Joseph Stalin's genocidal regime. In return, Stalin named a city after him. Fifty years later, the city ...

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Author:	John E. Norem
Date:	Tue Jan 29 09:01:27 PST 2008

1230 [lbo-talk] Kremlin -- rank: 247

... anyway). --- "John E. Norem" <jnorem at cox.net> wrote: > Joseph Stalin > <http://www.newsweek.com/related.aspx?subject=Joseph+Stalin> > never had > any problem finding willing executioners. Everyone > from his ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jan 10 13:51:22 PST 2008