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1291 [lbo-talk] Putin Will Host G-8 In a Russia Under Ever Tighter Control -- rank: 247

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/12/AR2006071201706_pf.html Putin Will Host G-8 In a Russia Under Ever Tighter Control By Peter Finn Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, July 13, 2006; A01 MOSCOW -- Six years into the presidency of Vladimir Putin, who will host President ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:49:48 PDT 2006

1292 [lbo-talk] communist witches were not spectral -- rank: 247

... environment. > A particularly >despicable sub-species. Now you understand why Stalin belived trhat for >this kind four wall are three too ... many. > This part doesn't make sense. Unswerving devotion to Stalin came from exactly such people. Joanna > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Wed Jan 11 09:19:29 PST 2006

1293 [lbo-talk] Leninist/Maoist Finance? -- rank: 247

Wojtek Sokolowski _ Cmde. Brown: Charles, there is no doubt in my mind that planned economy was a splendid solution to the multiple problems Russia faced - but let's not get carried away. ^^^^^^ CB: You mean carried away like those dead miners suffering in an unplanned economy ? Planning is so elementarily rational ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jan 5 14:50:44 PST 2006

1294 [lbo-talk] Leninist/Maoist Finance? -- rank: 247

First, I take Wojtek's point that the Soviet Union maximized the Keynesian notion of state finance. But this is separable from my point. The Nazis also used a very similar mechanism of state finance. This is not to derogate it as such, but to suggest that the use of the ...

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Author:	boddi satva
Date:	Wed Jan 4 17:51:42 PST 2006

1295 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 247

... invasion was non-fascist war. ^^^^^^ what's the difference between Stalin's authoritarianism and Mussolini's authoritarianism? If the word "fascism ... prison here in California, why doesn't it apply to Stalin, who had all sorts of nasty prisons in Siberia? no ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Feb 20 08:23:02 PST 2006

1296 [lbo-talk] What is you know what ? -- rank: 247

... in 1940 was non-fascist? what's the difference between Stalin's authoritarianism and Mussolini's authoritarianism? If the word "fascism ... prison here in California, why doesn't it apply to Stalin, who had all sorts of nasty prisons in Siberia? no ...

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Fri Feb 17 13:45:25 PST 2006

1297 [lbo-talk] Rethinking Zionism -- rank: 247

Rethinking Zionism By Norman Markowitz click here for related stories: Middle East 2-07-06, 8:51 am A comrade who is a sophisticated Marxist-Leninist asked me recently to try to deal with the question of "Zionism" theoretically. His point, which is a good one, was that criticisms and condemnations ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Wed Feb 15 06:28:55 PST 2006

1298 [lbo-talk] More Dolan on Frey -- rank: 247

Whose Fault Is Frey? By John Dolan, AlterNet. Posted January 17, 2006. Who gets the blame when a con man robs the congregation blind? That's the real question in the case of James Frey. Frey was nobody a few years back, a hack screenwriter whose best-known credit was an ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Feb 1 09:13:19 PST 2006

1299 [lbo-talk] LRB | Corey Robin : Dragon-Slayers -- rank: 247

The essay was pretty good, but it had its low points. Here is one: [on The Origins of Totalitarianism]: ``Ideology and terror reinforced this grip. Racism and Marxism confined their adherents in a ;straitjacket of logic, lending the world a spurious consistency and relieving people of the freedom inherent in man ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sat Dec 30 16:18:19 PST 2006

1300 [lbo-talk] Ticktin on Soviet "Planning" -- rank: 247

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/653/ticktin.htm No more historical abortions Hillel Ticktin highlights the bogus nature of planning in the Soviet Union and locates the central importance of Europe for the transition to socialism It is clear that we are living through a world transitional period, where socialism ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Dec 17 07:57:04 PST 2006

1301 [lbo-talk] Corruption, violence and vice have triumphed in Putin's Russia -- rank: 247

http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1957728,00.html#article_continue Guardian/UK Corruption, violence and vice have triumphed in Putin's Russia The president may not have personally ordered Litvinenko's murder, but he is overlord of a culture which legitimised it Max Hastings Monday November 27, 2006 ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Fri Dec 8 17:49:40 PST 2006

1302 [lbo-talk] French Politics: Where Extremes Meet -- rank: 247

French Politics: Where Extremes Meet Patrice de Beer December 4, 2006 The potency of radical right and left movements in France's political kaleidoscope makes the dynamics of the presidential election hard to predict, says Patrice de Beer. Open Democracy: Free Thinking for the World http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-institutions ...

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Author:	Michael Givel
Date:	Fri Dec 8 17:49:33 PST 2006

1303 [lbo-talk] Orwell's Obscurity -- rank: 247

Jerry Monaco wrote: > > > I am not sure the particular examples Carrol is referring to here. If he can remember them I hope he can please list them or explain specifically. As a start: Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Dec 8 15:45:18 PST 2006

1304 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 247

... Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > > > [WS:] I think Stalin was more like Ivan the > Terrible, the enforcer, whereas > Peter ... modernizer. I'd rather compare > Lenin to PtG. > > I think Stalin internally compared himself to both, but thought of Ivan as ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Dec 6 11:22:01 PST 2006

1305 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 247

Chris: Hey, I'm on record as comparing Stalin to Peter the Great. [WS:] I think Stalin was more like Ivan the Terrible, the enforcer, whereas Peter ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Dec 6 11:04:21 PST 2006