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1576 Who did FSU in? (was: Re:Padilla) -- rank: 247

Why it was Gorby! http://www.northstarcompass.org/nsc0005/ http://www.lalkar.demon.co.uk/issues/contents/mar2000/gorbachev.html Return to Back issues 2000 Return to Homepage A shameful boast In an interview he gave on Turkish radio recently, Mikhail Gorbachev, the former General Secretary of the CPSU and President ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 14 11:11:43 PDT 2002

1577 Purges shake Turkmenistan -- rank: 247

Asia Times June 5, 2002 Purges shake Turkmenistan By Hooman Peimani Dr Hooman Peimani works as an independent consultant with international organizations in Geneva, Switzerland, and does research in international relations. On May 8, the Turkmen judiciary charged a former defense minister and 21 top security officials with various crimes, such ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Thu Jun 6 04:19:19 PDT 2002

1578 anti-stalinism -- rank: 247

I don't know anybody who was seriously bothered by the KGB. Yet had to be pretty notable to come to their attention. An artist friend used to exhibit in underground, illegal exhibits that were monitored by the KGB. Of course there were labor camps, but you wouldn't get sent ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jul 14 07:40:24 PDT 2002

1579 anti-stalinism -- rank: 247

... This is a > caracture. It didn't even happen under Stalin. > > In my opinion, calling the post-Stalin USSR totalitarian is iffy at best. > (And I know people ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Sun Jul 14 07:17:20 PDT 2002

1580 anti-stalinism -- rank: 247

... This is a caracture. It didn't even happen under Stalin. In my opinion, calling the post-Stalin USSR totalitarian is iffy at best. (And I know people ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jul 14 03:18:00 PDT 2002

1581 Belarusian president laments independence from Soviet Union -- rank: 247

That guy is a one man Hitler-Stalin Pact. Has repeatedly said he admires Hitler and Stalin's methods. http://www.v2.nl/FreeZone/users/arns/Texts ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Jul 4 15:30:42 PDT 2002

1582 Soviet Union better than Yeltsin -- rank: 247

Well, yeah, but this is the Soviet Union under Stalin. There's quite a difference between life Uncle Joe and his epigones (although Stalin does have a high popularity rating in Russia among elderly ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jan 15 23:21:21 PST 2002

1583 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 247

--- Charles Brown <CharlesB at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote: > Soviet philosophy > "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: > > The view that it is OK to force people to espouse The Truth > whether they believe it > or not is the heart of tyranny. > > ^^^^^ > > CB: > The heart of the bourgeois ...

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Author:	Cian O'Connor
Date:	Wed Feb 27 03:19:58 PST 2002

1584 soviet philosophy -- rank: 247

Tahir: I've been listening to comrade CB laying down the leninist line for all of us as if we haven't heard this sort of BS a thousand times before. The only way a leninist can argue it seems is by sheer repetition and the kinds of crude (if thoroughly ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 01:08:20 PST 2002

1585 Soviet philosophy -- rank: 247

Soviet philosophy "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> > >^^^^^ >CB: I'm trying to think whether the academic powers that be in the West >don't use fiat quite a bit in deciding who gets to be a paid philosopher. >How many Dialecticians get tenure in the U.S. philosophy departments. I ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Feb 24 13:02:24 PST 2002

1586 Soviet philosophy (Was : marxist sociology) -- rank: 247

... THERE WAS GOOD SOVIET PHILOSOPHY, ESPECIALLY LOGIC, UNDER AND AFTER >STALIN. But there hardly any creative Marxist philosophy of any note >under or after Stalin, and the official Diamat was deadly and is only >of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Feb 24 12:08:22 PST 2002

1587 The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism, -- rank: 247

Copies of this book available via http://www.bolerium.com http://www.workersliberty.org/wlmags/wl50/losttext.htm The pilots who weathered the storm In the first of a series of critical responses to The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism, recently published by Phoenix Press and ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Feb 23 12:22:21 PST 2002

1588 Dimitrov -- rank: 247

Charles, I didn't see your first post until after I posted the Freikorps reply. || CB: The Dimitrov position is not that these gangs are agents of || finance capital when they first started, although, of course || secret support would by definition would be hard to find. It || is their taking state ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Fri Feb 22 02:09:47 PST 2002

1589 marxist philosophy -- rank: 247

My point is that because many Marxist philosophers, especially in the SU took the lead of Engels and Lenin, and since Lenin and probably Engels were well aware of the late 19th Century "Back to Kant" movement in professional philosophy in Germany, that many ( more than one out of 100) Marxist ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Thu Feb 21 09:12:51 PST 2002

1590 marxist philosophy -- rank: 247

Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 05:53:20 +0000 From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> Let's not get personal, Charles, at least not nasty. ^^^^^^^ CB: The post heading was a mistake as I was rushing out , and forgot to change the digest format, which has the name at the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Feb 21 08:08:08 PST 2002