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1501 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:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:28:08 PDT 2003

1502 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of -- rank: 247

... value judgement, but not psychological judgement. If I say that Stalin acts rationally, which he does occasionally, that isn't to ...

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Author:	Simon Huxtable
Date:	Thu Jul 24 05:06:05 PDT 2003

1503 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... And in this case, >it's Chris's analysis arguing Stalin's perfect rationality and superior >political skills.) Saying that Stalin didn't have superior political skills is rather goofy. Mass ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 23 23:26:04 PDT 2003

1504 [lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... rabid dogs. > > >Brad DeLong The Russian provinces are begging for Stalin to come and save them, as he did in World War II. Stalin is a God in the poorer parts of the former ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 23 23:23:23 PDT 2003

1505 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... is not our > business to pass judgement on Hitler or Stalin - or, > if you like, on Senator McCarthy - this is because ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Wed Jul 23 20:14:24 PDT 2003

1506 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... I think that's public domain anyhow, not copyrighted by Stalin. I first > heard it (not ascribed to Stalin) as One death is a tragedy, 10,000 a > problem ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Jul 22 15:04:17 PDT 2003

1507 [lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... a minority view. I haven't heard somebody claim > that Stalin's marbles were in the right place for more than a decade... "I trust no one, not even myself." - Stalin Michael Pugliese

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jul 21 10:07:52 PDT 2003

1508 [lbo-talk] Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 247

... adopted the >mask of a God King? None indicates insanity. > >Stalin did 1 & 2. He sort of did 3. He was ... a minority view. I haven't heard somebody claim that Stalin's marbles were in the right place for more than ...

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Author:	Brad DeLong
Date:	Mon Jul 21 06:55:56 PDT 2003

1509 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 247

... was building hovercraft and sending men into space. > > That was Stalin. Yep. Somewhere in _The Short Twentieth Century_, Hobsbawm says that by the time Stalin died, the USSR had become totally self-sufficient and barely ...

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Author:	Grant Lee
Date:	Wed Jul 2 00:57:38 PDT 2003

1510 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 247

... nothing but contempt for Gorbachev, Yeltsin and Putin, but loves Stalin, "because people who steal from the people deserve to be shot, and Stalin would have done it." _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 2 01:24:03 PDT 2003

1511 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 247

... make a >perfectly > > rational cost-benefit analysis and argue that Stalin was good for the > > country (note that you cannot do ... was building hovercraft and sending men into space. That was Stalin. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 2 00:12:18 PDT 2003

1512 [lbo-talk] How close was it? -- rank: 247

Right, thanks for correcting my dates, can't imagine what possessed me. Wrote the right ones, then deleted them because they looked wrong, and wrote the wrong ones. Actually, the Nazis were fighting in the south suburbs of Moscow. I have stood at the monument marking their furthest advance. But the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jul 1 19:53:19 PDT 2003

1513 [lbo-talk] How close was it? -- rank: 247

... had been signed with them in April of that year. Stalin ordered Zhukov to bring his army to Moscow and the ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Tue Jul 1 17:48:17 PDT 2003

1514 RES: [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 247

... make a perfectly > rational cost-benefit analysis and argue that Stalin was good for the > country (note that you cannot do ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Tue Jul 1 15:11:14 PDT 2003

1515 Empson on OrwellRe: [lbo-talk] RE: Big Brother, say wot? -- rank: 247

My memory, as usual, was not exact, but it got the spirit of the thing. - > From William Empson, _Milton's God_ (London, 1961). ***** An interesting survey of British political novel-writing by Mr Gerber, in the Critical Quarterly for Spring 1959, discussed briefly among others the horrible book _1984_ which George ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 1 06:21:58 PDT 2003