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1381 [lbo-talk] Howard Zinn on Unpredictability -- rank: 247

Howard Zinn, along with many others, ticked me off because of his part in closing down the anti-war movement last spring (by joining the ABB brigade). Nevertheless, like Noam Chomsky, he remains a national resource, as shown by the following. URL for complete piece given at end. Carrol ------- The Optimism ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Nov 28 11:30:34 PST 2004

1382 [lbo-talk] Re: Trotsky -- rank: 247

Who are you calling an old Trot? A chance remark by The Independent's Robert Fisk about the Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has opened a Pandora's box of arcane political enmities. Francis Beckett relishes the fight 27 November 2004 At the tail end of the 1960s, a revolutionary star was ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Nov 27 18:19:23 PST 2004

1383 [lbo-talk] Proyect on Nathan Newman and Reconstruction -- rank: 247

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 17:58:46 -0800, joanna bujes <jbujes at covad.net> wrote: > As Angela M used to say, it's all about drawing lines, and how important > or interesting is that, really? http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1906/rucong/viii.htm > ...We think that an ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Nov 18 20:52:05 PST 2004

1384 [lbo-talk] The new Russia: Out of the red -- rank: 247

Am I imagining things, or are Indian takes on Russia almost uniformly positive? Sify.com (India) November 15, 2004 The new Russia: Out of the red By Mohan Guruswamy Most of us in India seem to be still viewing Russia through the filters of the Yeltsin era, when its economy was ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Nov 16 09:11:10 PST 2004

1385 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 247

Charles Brown wrote: > I see in a later post that you answer your own questions to me, no ? For Marx, "socialism" is the penultimate stage in the development of rational self-consciousness. The central role given to the labour process in this development results from Marx's sublation of Hegel's ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Fri May 28 07:15:33 PDT 2004

1386 [lbo-talk] re Comments re caste & CP's of India -- rank: 247

http://www.allianceML.com/AllianceIssues/All-5b.htm to comment re John Mage: Your correspodnent is certainly astute. However perhaps he/she missed one aspect: The above web-link is to an Alliance issue of some years back & references that even the seismic Telangana struggle had caste overtones. I try to ...

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Author:	Hari Kumar
Date:	Mon May 24 14:16:11 PDT 2004

1387 [lbo-talk] Queer Havanan -- rank: 247

From: "Brian Charles Dauth" > Again, this seems to be your personal definition of what a radical is and how she would act. ^^^^ CB: It is a definition that some others would share, but what other definition of "radical" did you think I would use but mine ? What's your definition of ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 19 12:11:45 PDT 2004

1388 [lbo-talk] Re: Queer Havanan -- rank: 247

Dear List: Charles writes: > Radicals, as I mentioned before, would communicate it in such a way as not to feed into the anti-Cuban campaign. I didn't say keep your mouth shut. I said say to the Cubans only and don't say it to Americans. Again, this seems to ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Tue May 18 18:24:02 PDT 2004

1389 [lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election -- rank: 247

... structure was a highly centralised one. CP was formed after Stalin's capture of the Comintern and CPGB was an important influence. Indian CP did not have a pre-Stalin tradition of its own. (Like Italians had Labriola, Gramsci, Bordiga ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat May 15 18:53:19 PDT 2004

1390 [lbo-talk] Re: Roy -- rank: 247

Dear List: Joanna writes: > "Resistance" is political action that refuses the possibility/desire of taking power. How do you arrive at this conclusion? To me power is part of human society. As soon as a human structure is created, power comes into existence. If one resists the power structure that exists ...

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Author:	BklynMagus
Date:	Sat May 15 15:58:24 PDT 2004

1391 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural Changes (Marxist Democracy) -- rank: 247

Dear List: Another 3fer. I apologize for it being too disjointed, but I am getting sleepy. Also thanks to those who have pushed me on this issue. I appreciate it. Charles wrote: > OK defense of the revolution should not be foregone because , often, violence begets violence. Otherwise, the ruling class could ...

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Author:	Brian Charles Dauth
Date:	Wed May 12 21:24:20 PDT 2004

1392 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

Eagleton wrote: > The book could have said more about the curious time-warping involved > in fascism - the way in which it is archaic and avant-garde, > mythological and technological, at the same time. In this, it > resembles the cultural modernism with which it had intimate (if > ambiguous) relations. The Holocaust was ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Tue May 11 07:17:01 PDT 2004

1393 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

Well, if I do a google on "Jewish Ukrainian Nazi", I get 18,600 hits. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Jewish+Ukrainian+Nazi&btnG=Search Therefore, apparently, a lot of Ukrainian Jews were Nazis. If I do a google on "Jewish ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 10 06:22:25 PDT 2004

1394 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

... 36 seconds) http://www.google.com/search?q=+Ukrainian+Jews+Stalin Results 1 - 25 of about 9,360 for Ukrainian Jews Stalin. (0.46 seconds) http://www.ukemonde.com/genocide/emargolis.htm ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon May 10 06:14:11 PDT 2004

1395 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

... the lines between the crimes of Hitler and those of Stalin during the Cold War in order to portray the Evil ... are pagan. The Franco point is arguable. The point about Stalin slaughtering the Ukrainians for being Jews is a real puzzler ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 10 02:19:47 PDT 2004