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1351 [lbo-talk] Great Whites - Polish jokes not appreciated. -- rank: 247

> Has anyone ever collected Stalin's witticisms? Someone should: "Stalin After Dark," with Comrade Joe on the cover wearing a ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Fri Jul 15 16:43:48 PDT 2005

1352 [lbo-talk] Great Whites - Polish jokes not appreciated. -- rank: 247

Has anyone ever collected Stalin's witticisms? Peter Lavelle wrote: >Yes. (Now the Kremlin - though ... our toes. > >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> Did Stalin really say that socialism in Poland would >> be like a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 15 16:27:09 PDT 2005

1353 [lbo-talk] Moral Tragedy and Moral Compromise (Was Statement by ethical anarchists) -- rank: 247

I have nothing positive to say about the London bombing, where is a mere atrocity carried out by wicked people pursuing vile ends by appalling means. However the remarks below raise the question of moral compromise for good ends ,and come out with the wrong answer, in my view. Btw in ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Jul 8 09:09:44 PDT 2005

1354 [lbo-talk] Hayekians and other supporters of the market are enemies of the human race -- rank: 247

... other American leftists, but really Charles, this isn't fair. Stalin(ism) is not the same as Marxism or socialism or ... re not excusing the crimes of capital by admitting that Stalin & Co. killed man

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:15:26 PST 2005

1355 [lbo-talk] Missing the Marx -- rank: 247

... was not aloof and asocial, like Lenin. The cruelty of Stalin was completely alien to him. He did not fall into ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jan 9 08:44:49 PST 2005

1356 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky on Soviet Planning -- rank: 247

> 1)Stalin's five-year plans were aimed at industrializing the USSR ... in an antagonistic relationship with > the entire capitalist world, whether Stalin liked it or not. (He mostly didn't.) > I think ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jan 6 15:08:29 PST 2005

1357 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky on Soviet Planning -- rank: 247

It may sound like flogging a dead horse on this list - but the idea that the Soviet leadership tried to build an alternative to bourgeois economy is a ruse, shared by ideologues of various stripes for different reasons. The Soviet central planning system was not a substitute for "capitalist" (meaning Western ...

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Author:	Turbulo at aol.com
Date:	Thu Jan 6 13:57:13 PST 2005

1358 [lbo-talk] The Ontology of Two Chairs -- rank: 247

Manjur, Maybe we could just pick someone like, say, Stalin, and make him a scapegoat for a version of Marxism ... say though, that I don't think Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky or any of the gang thought that achieving socialism ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jan 6 12:30:56 PST 2005

1359 [lbo-talk] Beria question -- rank: 247

... is meaningful in a couple of ways, because 1) supposedly Stalin held Beria's Mingrelian ethnicity against him and 2) it ... the Russian Nationalism card, how swarming with ethnic minorities the Stalin Kremlin was -- Georgians, Abkhaz, Jews, Cossacks, Armenians. BTW, Stas Namin ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Feb 21 09:45:28 PST 2005

1360 [lbo-talk] Beria question/Litvinov -- rank: 247

As an aside, FWIW, I never heard anyone who served with the ex-Soviet Foreign Ministry speak well of Molotov either (naturally, I mean once people could speak). Apparently, Molotov could be quite nasty too. However many of the more interesting Ministry 'old hands' spoke extremely well of Maxim Litvinov (Molotov ...

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Author:	Paul
Date:	Sun Feb 20 18:33:04 PST 2005

1361 [lbo-talk] Beria question -- rank: 247

... Pavlovich's economic and political reforms after the > death of Stalin are known in Russia. Does anybody > (Justin?) know of any ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Sun Feb 20 14:48:41 PST 2005

1362 [lbo-talk] Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China -- rank: 247

Years ago while in grad school -- In addition to philosophy, I was trained as a numbers cruncher by G. David Singer, Ron Ingelhart etc., in the Michigan polisci dept, the leading quant school -- I analysed Rummell's methodology. He's totally unreliable, uses right wing sources that exaggerate things that are ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Dec 9 09:47:46 PST 2005

1363 [lbo-talk] Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China -- rank: 247

... her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm > now convinced that > > that Stalin exceeded Hitler > > in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...] That settles it. The "Free World" was right fighting that ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Dec 9 09:40:06 PST 2005

1364 [lbo-talk] Reevaluated Democide Totals for 20th C. and China -- rank: 247

... her husband, Jon Halliday. I'm now convinced that > that Stalin exceeded Hitler > in monstrous evil, and Mao beat out Stalin. [...] > > Now, I have to change all the world democide totals ...

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Author:	geert lovink
Date:	Fri Dec 9 08:34:47 PST 2005

1365 [lbo-talk] Fascist Trotskyites -- rank: 247

... you said it, Then we read it In the Hitler-Stalin pact -- from "Oh My Stalin, Party Line" (sung to the tune of Clementine) > > http://www ...

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Author:	www.leninology. blogspot.com
Date:	Sun Aug 28 12:18:59 PDT 2005