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1486 [lbo-talk] Government powers (was: Emailer setting request) -- rank: 247

... popular of all is Peter the Great. > >Well, didn't Stalin hold him out as a role model? > >Jim F. > Yep. And Stalin is himself very popular. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jun 13 02:03:46 PDT 2003

1487 [lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch -- rank: 247

Chris: The difference is that Stalin is an officially desgnated demon figure and the Russian nobility ... BAD, whereas portraits of Russian nobility may be fine art. Stalin = Bad. WS: My RiP grandma who was born before the ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue Jun 10 10:31:41 PDT 2003

1488 [lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch -- rank: 247

... START_ROW_NUM_DL=29 > >Wojtek The difference is that Stalin is an officially desgnated demon figure and the Russian nobility ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jun 10 05:46:53 PDT 2003

1489 [lbo-talk] Soviet Kitsch -- rank: 247

... START_ROW_NUM_DL=29 > >Wojtek The difference is that Stalin is an officially desgnated demon figure and the Russian nobility ... BAD, whereas portraits of Russian nobility may be fine art. Stalin = Bad. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jun 10 02:11:17 PDT 2003

1490 [lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges -- rank: 247

... This is also the first generation who, when asked about Stalin, >neither say "He was a hero!" or "He was a murderous villian!" but >rather "Stalin, whatever." Note to Pugliese: learn from the youth! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 9 10:12:49 PDT 2003

1491 [lbo-talk] RE: Soviet nomenklatura privileges -- rank: 247

>Chris, > There is no contradiction here. This "chicness" does >not mean that they are taking the ideas seriously. In the >US, when we see 20-somethings engaging in retro styles, >is there not usually an element of "irony" involved? That >is certainly the sense that I had when I was ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jun 9 08:50:48 PDT 2003

1492 [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 247

... the working class and peasantry, --- > How "atomized" were they, really? Stalin was not a hated dictator. He was > a > dictator who ... by the early 20's long before Stalinism. Gabor Rittersporn: Stalin in 1938: Political Defeat Behind the Rhetorical Apotheosis, Telos, #46 ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 6 07:55:48 PDT 2003

1493 [lbo-talk] Quakers -- rank: 247

Yes well... Nixon was never very Quaker-y despite his renowned adoration of his Quaker mother. Having a Quaker parent does not, I don't think, really equal Quaker background, considering that he was not raised to be even remotely Quaker. His father was non-practising Protestant I believe, which is ...

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Author:	Catherine Driscoll
Date:	Tue Jun 3 15:28:54 PDT 2003

1494 [lbo-talk] Quakers -- rank: 247

... a marvelous work), Bertarnd Russell creates the following nightmare for Stalin. He has lost WWIII, and has been placed by the ... reprive him mildly for his volcanic rants. "Now, now, Mr. Stalin, thretening to have people shot is not very nice." jks ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jun 3 09:50:22 PDT 2003

1495 [lbo-talk] Lukashenko & Belarus -- rank: 247

Union of Councils for Jews in the FSU http://www.fsumonitor.com/ 20 September 2001 A coalition of extremist leftist parties, almost all of which are known to regularly use antisemitic and racist slogans, announced plans to march on Moscow on September 15-16 to protest globalization, according to the September ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jun 2 08:05:09 PDT 2003

1496 [lbo-talk] conservatives less "integratively complex" -- rank: 247

Researchers help define what makes a political conservative http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/07/22_politics.shtml By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 22 July 2003 (revised 7/25/03) BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to ...

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Author:	Kelley
Date:	Sun Jul 27 18:03:09 PDT 2003

1497 RES: OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... Fenelon>... >-Btw: Medvevedīs calculation of 40,000,000 of > Stalin victims seems to count > >also > >-non fatal repression victims. Given ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Jul 27 08:22:45 PDT 2003

1498 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... Henwood wrote: > A problem for anyone who believes in democracy: > Stalin was broadly popular (and still is among lots > of Russians ... rights, neither of which were recognized in the case of Stalin. with pedantic sympathy for some bouji liberalism, Shane ________________________________________________________________ The best ...

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Author:	Shane Taylor
Date:	Thu Jul 24 12:33:00 PDT 2003

1499 [lbo-talk] The Wickedness of Bolshevism -- rank: 247

... from their misdaventures, one can debate about whether it rivals Stalin's or Mao's, but it's unacceptably high. Most ... that's not an excuse. It happens that most of Stalin's and Mao's was domestic. That is not a ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Thu Jul 24 09:46:43 PDT 2003

1500 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... to the >> use of the term "lunatic" or "insane" to Stalin. Your main arguments >> were that a) he acquired considerable political ... and presumably rational people as > evidence of rationality. Presumably, if Stalin were a raving nutcase, > somebody in the Party would have ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:49:08 PDT 2003