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1396 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

... Penguin Press, 336pp, £20 > ISBN 0713997206 > Reviewed by Terry Eagleton > > Stalin slaughtered > Ukrainian peasants because they were Jews. If recent scholarship ... accepted things as they were." Wait a second -- is this Stalin-killed-the-Jews nonsense Paxton's argument, which Eagleton is ...

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Author:	Dennis Redmond
Date:	Sun May 9 17:51:38 PDT 2004

1397 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 247

... are pagan. The Franco point is arguable. The point about Stalin slaughtering the Ukrainians for being Jews is a real puzzler ... leftist" idiocies: > -Franco was not a fascist > -fascists are "pagans" > -"Stalin slaughtered Ukrainian peasants because they were Jews." > >

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Author:	Jeet Heer
Date:	Sun May 9 17:33:02 PDT 2004

1398 [lbo-talk] Khrushchev -- rank: 247

... Khrushchev , General > Secretary ( top > >leader) of the CPSU, did criticize Stalin for > murderous repression. Well, at least repression of the Party . . . the "secret speech" didn't mention Stalin's crimes against others. Though I am a considerable admirer ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue May 4 19:41:04 PDT 2004

1399 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 247

Nathan said: >My first point was that the Soviet Union isn't as benign an object as >pretty >dresses, so backlash was more justified, even if the form of backlash was >bad. And my return to that was you, and others, seem to blame the "victim". >Secondly, unlike pretty dresses, demands ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Tue May 4 15:23:40 PDT 2004

1400 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 247

... wrote: > > > >>One more thing you liberal democrats forget is > that Stalin was quite popular. > > > >What implication re Stalin should liberal democrats > and others draw from this? > > It makes ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue May 4 12:07:09 PDT 2004

1401 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 247

... wrote: > >>One more thing you liberal democrats forget is that Stalin was quite popular. > >What implication re Stalin should liberal democrats and others draw from this? It makes ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 11:45:47 PDT 2004

1402 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 247

... wrote: > One more thing you liberal democrats forget is that Stalin was quite > popular. What implication re Stalin should liberal democrats and others draw from this? The reasons ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Tue May 4 11:21:15 PDT 2004

1403 [lbo-talk] Andropov -- rank: 247

Thanks for the links. See below. Actually, I remember many articles in the US press, including a piece in TNR, by a Russian couple (Vladimir Solovyov, Elena Klepikova ?) surmissing that Andropov was a reformist.Lover of Western Jazz. --- Well, Andropov was certainly a reformer. His anti-corruption campaign was very popular ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Mon Mar 29 00:40:27 PST 2004

1404 [lbo-talk] Orwell, George Garrett, and Working-Class/ Walmart Personality Cult of Commodities -- rank: 247

From: Yoshie Furuhashi George Orwell made working-class socialist intellectuals virtually invisible in _The Road to Wigan Pier_, because he wanted to create an image of "the ordinary working man" whose intellect cannot grasp "the deeper implications of Socialism" and contrast it with his image of the bookish "middle-class socialist ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Mar 25 08:24:36 PST 2004

1405 [lbo-talk] Why the Anti-War Movement Needs Saving from Itself -- rank: 247

... Harry Steel, the surname Steel being a homage to Joseph Stalin. His blog site has an approving link to a web ... War Coalition leader Andrew Murray for being a supporter of Stalin. Albert PS Here's Harry's blog http://hurryupharry.bloghouse ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Mar 23 07:28:11 PST 2004

1406 [lbo-talk] Josef " Whitman " Dzhugashvili -- rank: 247

... reading off-and-on one of those revisionist books on Stalin that have become fashionable recently in Russia, and the author ... an acclaimed Georgian literary journal. The book is so pro-Stalin that I at first thought this was probably bunk, but ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Tue Mar 23 04:13:20 PST 2004

1407 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....) -- rank: 247

... place for a >critique of the Soviet Union, or of Stalin. But a critique of _Animal >Farm_? What's to critique? (Besides, that is, the declaration that Stalin >on the one hand and Truman and Attlee on the ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Mon Mar 22 19:05:09 PST 2004

1408 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....) -- rank: 247

... place for > a critique of the Soviet Union, or of Stalin. But a > critique of > _Animal Farm_? What's to critique? (Besides, that > is, the declaration > that Stalin on the one hand and Truman and Attlee on > the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Mar 22 18:25:22 PST 2004

1409 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....) -- rank: 247

... What's to critique? (Besides, >that is, the declaration that Stalin on the one hand and Truman and >Attlee on the ... the central point of the book, that's all! (taking "Stalin," "Truman," and "Attlee" as synechdoches for their respective ruling classes ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Mon Mar 22 17:15:25 PST 2004

1410 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell (Coming back to the list....) -- rank: 247

... place for a critique of the Soviet Union, or of Stalin. But a critique of _Animal Farm_? What's to critique? (Besides, that is, the declaration that Stalin on the one hand and Truman and Attlee on the ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Mar 22 15:34:11 PST 2004