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1321 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 247

... quick search on the Russian Internet for "four walls" and "Stalin" (or the Russian words for them rather) and came up ... It seems that few of the famous apothegms > attributed to Stalin have > > >been sourced with any certainty, including "the > death of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Oct 15 10:24:42 PDT 2005

1322 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 247

... It seems that few of the famous apothegms attributed to Stalin have > >been sourced with any certainty, including "the death of ... by a reprehensible monster make any difference? What does the Stalin's persona add to the realization that, after all, for ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Fri Oct 14 09:03:46 PDT 2005

1323 [lbo-talk] "four walls are three too many" -- rank: 247

... It seems that few of the famous apothegms attributed to Stalin have been > >sourced with any certainty, including "the death of ... by a reprehensible monster make any difference? What does the Stalin's persona add to the realization that, after all, for ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Oct 14 08:47:58 PDT 2005

1324 [lbo-talk] Poll of Top 5 Public Intellectuals! Vote For Chomsky! -- rank: 247

On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:50:00 -0600 Michael Pugliese <michael.098762001 at gmail.com> writes: > On 10/4/05, Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote: > > CB: Give me examples of smart ideas that Posner, Schmitt ,Strauss > and > > Nietzsche had. > > Reminder to Charles. You ever get around to pulling ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Tue Oct 4 12:35:29 PDT 2005

1325 [lbo-talk] Mussolini, Trotskyist -- rank: 247

... 10/1/05, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> > wrote:Stalin was > supposedly surprised by the > German invasion, but I think ... corrected on > this if anybody knows better. > > Comrade Khruschev claimed Stalin had a nervous > breakdown for a few days. Wow! I ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat Oct 1 14:27:08 PDT 2005

1326 [lbo-talk] Chomsky v Marko -- rank: 247

Moving to a more general view, the American left has often played an honorable role in advancing human rights: the right to organize in labor unions, the end of segregation, legal and customary, the rights of women, and, in more recent years, the rights of gays have all been championed and ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Nov 19 22:47:29 PST 2005

1327 [lbo-talk] Democrats in Senate Act as An Opposition Party: Republicans Dumbstruck -- rank: 247

... Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote: > My favorite is what Stalin said to one of his sons, > Vasily I think (the ... Moral History of the Twentieth Century (Paperback) by Jonathan Glover >...Stalin's bracing comment, made while signing death warrants: "Who's ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Nov 3 14:18:53 PST 2005

1328 [lbo-talk] The STFU left -- rank: 247

... that none are in the vein of, "Oh that eeeeeeevil Stalin, w/o him it would have been, in the words ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon May 23 11:13:50 PDT 2005

1329 [lbo-talk] Anti-communism -- rank: 247

... and overworked them. -- What era are we talking about here? Stalin died in 1953. Post-Stalin USSR was quite liberated from want. --- It was *even worse ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 23 01:30:08 PDT 2005

1330 [lbo-talk] Rosenberg Execution (was: The STFU left -- rank: 247

Never mind the respect JR's KGB controllers may have had for him. He was convicted for giving the Soviets crude drawings of "lenses" or shaped pieces of high explosive necessary to compress a sphere of plutonium oe U-238 to critical mass. The problem is that if the lenses are ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun May 22 22:22:39 PDT 2005

1331 [lbo-talk] Personal Attack / Ad Hominem Argument -- rank: 247

Autoplectic wrote: > > No no no. Let the punks revel in their adolescent ad hominems > regarding a person they've obviously never met in the meat world. It > might be best for any future archive peruser to see how far in the > toilet leftists sink when there's a war on, as ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat May 21 12:06:24 PDT 2005

1332 [lbo-talk] Stalinism -- rank: 247

... would crush it (and the Nazis would have, to, if Stalin hadn't force-industrialized). ^^^^^^ CB: Bingo ! If I might reiterate ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu May 19 12:14:14 PDT 2005

1333 [lbo-talk] Re: Stalinism -- rank: 247

... one-party state, it required official expression. > This is what Stalin gave it. > Replacing the internationalism of the original > Bolsheviks with ... would crush it (and the Nazis would have, to, if Stalin hadn't force-industrialized). 2. Second, ideology. As we all ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu May 19 10:49:31 PDT 2005

1334 [lbo-talk] Galloway to Senate: FOAD -- rank: 247

Galloway, right on the war, incredible orator, but, I suspect in the end we'll have confirmed he was in the receipt of Saddammist $. On his ideological committments, the Alliance for Workers Liberty, a small, scrappy neo-Trot sect in the UK has tons of material hostile to him here, http ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed May 18 12:05:33 PDT 2005

1335 [lbo-talk] An Appeal to the U.S. AntiwarMovementforUnitedDemonstrations in the Fall -- rank: 247

Doug Henwood wrote: > > > ...we have an extremely powerful ruling class and an > atomized and demobilized population. Direct actions in an environment > where at least a significant minority of the pop is sympathetic is > very different from when it's a handful of activists with almost no > popular support. We're at ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed May 11 15:15:31 PDT 2005