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1681 Goldhagen, Finkelstein -- rank: 247

Weekly Worker 321 Thursday February 3 2000 http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/321/beyond.html Weekly Worker 321 Thursday February 3 2000 Beyond the pale Do socialists and communists support the banning or suppression of 'offensive' views - especially far right and fascistic ones? Is it a hopeless manifestation of libertarianism ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 17 08:14:29 PDT 2000

1682 RES: RES: North Korea -- rank: 247

... acumulation) to describe a program that was later adopted by Stalin. Massive expropriation and exploitation o peasants and working class to ... 1917 Revolution. Russia was capitalist for a long time before Stalin's terror ( See _The Development of Capitalism in Russia_ by ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Sat Apr 29 05:28:57 PDT 2000

1683 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 247

... how anyone who knows anything about the power struggle between Stalin and Trotsky, or about Stalin's dictatorship can still believe that campaigns-and-elections are ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue Apr 25 13:48:20 PDT 2000

1684 North Korea -- rank: 247

... I am a Leninist. I'm not a follower of Stalin, but anti-communists tend to exaggerate his crimes (a la ... crimes of liberals in history far outway the crimes of Stalin. CB

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Apr 25 10:26:53 PDT 2000

1685 North Korea -- rank: 247

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: > > Nor do I think that we have a cult of personality around them comparable to > that existing in North Korea--a situation, now that the elder Kim is dead, > involving a cult of personality without a personality. > Cheap shot. Low blow. What is the source of ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Tue Apr 25 07:57:44 PDT 2000

1686 question #2: intellectuals on gov't payroll? orwell? -- rank: 247

[Here's the Orwell passage from Frances Stonor Saunders' The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the Wolrd of Arts and Letters. She should be on my radio show next Thursday if BT fixes her phone in time.] Alsop had Joined Wisner's OPC at the same time as Finis ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 8 12:39:45 PDT 2000

1687 Communism's surprising appeal to a new generation -- rank: 247

It is sort of the converse of the boy who cried wolf. And then one day, the wolf really came. CB >>> "Andrew English" <aenglish at igc.org> 04/05/00 10:24AM >>> The CP has always lied pretty shamelessly about its membership figures. I've never known a period in the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Apr 5 07:47:01 PDT 2000

1688 Communism's surprising appeal to a new generation -- rank: 247

The CP has always lied pretty shamelessly about its membership figures. I've never known a period in the last 25 years when they didn't claim that the CP and its youth organization was growing by leaps and bounds. -Andy English -----Original Message----- From: Chris Kromm <ckromm at mindspring.com ...

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Author:	Andrew English
Date:	Wed Apr 5 07:24:52 PDT 2000

1689 Communism's surprising appeal to a new generation -- rank: 247

Young, Gifted, and Red Communism's surprising appeal to a new generation By Leora Broydo, Utne Reader Where have all the commies gone? Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc and the fall of the Berlin Wall nearly a decade ago, Reds have been all but dead in this country. In ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Tue Apr 4 12:25:42 PDT 2000

1690 Russians nostalgic for Brezhnev & Andropov! -- rank: 247

[from Johnson's Russia List] Russians miss strong Soviet leaders, poll finds MOSCOW, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Late Soviet leaders Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov would have better chances than any living politician to become Russia's next president if they could run in elections, a poll published on Sunday showed ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Sep 12 18:21:38 PDT 1999

1691 Planning, Market & Unemployment -- rank: 247

In message <3.0.6.32.19990830122212.00c73bf0 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes > >Jim, but a rational person would naturally ask why those targets were >"paper targets" - unless of course we want to give credibility to bourgeois >ideology of 'irrationality" of non-market systems ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 1 09:52:33 PDT 1999

1692 DeLong Distortion -- rank: 247

The following are reposted from a history list: From: David McInerney, Australian National University davidmci at igc.org Responding to Brad DeLong (May 3): The point is though, surely, that there is a significant difference between a state and/or party structured to systematically destroy a community and another that, due ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Thu May 6 06:34:11 PDT 1999

1693 Charles' support for THESE laws -- rank: 247

... subject still ought to have rights) was a rejection of Stalin and Vyshinsky's demotic assertion that the actions of the ... were class justice, and above legal challenge. For this impertinence, Stalin had Vyshinksy try and execute Pashukanis in 1937 - hence proving ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 4 15:09:17 PDT 1999

1694 lbo-talk-digest V1 #1173 -- rank: 247

... of War makes a convincing case that the Soviets and Stalin had no hand in the Greek situation, other than discouraging ... the canard that all Red movements would have ultimately been Stalin controlled, or authoritarian? The c

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Author:	jeff sommers
Date:	Wed Mar 31 12:07:49 PST 1999

1695 lbo-talk-digest V1 #1173 -- rank: 247

... of War makes a convincing case that the Soviets and Stalin had no hand in the Greek situation, other than discouraging ... the canard that all Red movements would have ultimately been Stalin controlled, or authoritarian? The complex history of these underdeveloped areas ...

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Author:	jeff sommers
Date:	Wed Mar 31 12:05:07 PST 1999