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1696 More on Greece -- rank: 247

>In a message dated 3/27/99 1:07:14 AM Central Standard Time, >delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU writes: > ><< You don't know anyone > >who thinks that the Greek people would have been better without Churchill > >stabbing the resistance in the back? Then you don't know all that ...

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Author:	NM
Date:	Wed Mar 31 04:58:58 PST 1999

1697 More on Greece -- rank: 247

... to occur in Greece to prevent a southern flank for Stalin? The US misunderstood the PKA to be a front for Stalin; in actuality (I think) this had a lot to do ...

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Author:	JayHecht at aol.com
Date:	Wed Mar 31 07:14:42 PST 1999

1698 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 247

> > > The real question is why in the years from 1945 to 1989 the non- or > semi-democratic regimes in the West Bloc--Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, > Portugal, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, and > Malaysia--have evolved, slowly and haltingly, toward political democracy, > human liberty, and economic prosperity, while their ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Tue Mar 30 12:56:59 PST 1999

1699 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 247

>> Max Sawicky wrote, >> >> "(Of course, our "revolutionary defeatists" would have nothing >but contempt for any pretension of international capitalist law. >They have no business invoking Chomsky for support.)"> > >Ken said: > >> That is nonsense, and he knows it, not having been born >yesterday, and in his own realm being the most ...

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Author:	NM
Date:	Tue Mar 30 08:03:03 PST 1999

1700 Political evolution or political unrest? -- rank: 247

... huge number of elections. Had Churchill's little meeting with Stalin turned out differently and had Churchill traded Greece to Stalin for Bohemia and had EAM-ELAS seized control over Greece ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon Mar 29 08:02:18 PST 1999

1701 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 247

Re: > >A Bulgarian/Greece comparison is very different than a US/USSR comparison, a >Canada/Albania comparison or an anywhere/anywhere comparison. Very >obnoxious of you, and very dishonest. I can see why you spend your time >on-line rather than in RL where twisting people's words like that would ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Sun Mar 28 14:21:57 PST 1999

1702 Greece -- rank: 247

... Hungary, Poland, or Yugoslavia. > > The EAM/ELAS had broken with Stalin by 1947. > Yugoslavia was called by a > Western economist "the ... revolution waged by Greek communists and other anti-monarchists although Stalin feared Yugoslavia's material aid to the revolution might signal ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Fri Mar 26 15:12:16 PST 1999

1703 Margaret on Imperialism; imperialism generally; a utility argument -- rank: 247

Margaret on imperialism: Sorry, Carrol, i must disagree. Actions are distinct from actors and from motives. The rescue of a cat from a group of psychopathic children does not become a bad act because performed by the neighborhood bully for all the wrong reasons. It just doesn't. GN: On Margaret ...

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Author:	Greg Nowell
Date:	Fri Mar 26 14:18:34 PST 1999

1704 Greece -- rank: 247

... much open to question. The EAM/ELAS had broken with Stalin by 1947. It is unfair to lump all those Eastern ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Fri Mar 26 09:32:47 PST 1999

1705 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 247

... amongst differing viewpoints. There was some mention of the "Hitler-Stalin Pact": "Well, the Molotov-von Ribbentrop (Hitler-Stalin) Pact triggered a pretty major split on the Left around ...

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Author:	Gary Bramstedt
Date:	Thu Mar 25 10:48:18 PST 1999

1706 Elia Kazan and ultra-purism -- rank: 247

I just cannot understand Warren Beatty - who has had the respect of Hollywood lefties - supporting the Kazan award. He said that the Academy was only honoring the films of Kazan, not his life, so Beatty did not agree with the protesters, but that certainly rings hollow. Beatty knew that he never ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 22 11:37:24 PST 1999

1707 Elia Kazan and ultra-purism -- rank: 247

One recent post seemed to me to show absolute contempt for those who oppose giving the award for lifetime achievment to Elia Kazan. The grounds on which this was considered laughable was the history of the Academy -- the fact the Academy was orginally was formed to provide a purpose for company ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sun Mar 21 15:10:34 PST 1999

1708 Bolton review -- rank: 247

Would someone please change the subject line on this if the thread is continuing. I don't much like seeing my name up there--makes me feel guilty for not having time to follow the thread muchas gracias, frances -----Original Message----- From: Sam Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> To: lbo-talk ...

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Author:	frances bolton
Date:	Thu Mar 18 09:00:37 PST 1999

1709 Bolton review -- rank: 247

> > > There are unexpected pleasures in seeing the success of otherwise junk > capitalist economic theories in the explanation of natural phenomena. But don't you think that these explanations of natural phenomena become imbued with bourgeois ideology simply by the use of capitalist methodology i.e. explaining wholes in terms of ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Thu Mar 18 08:28:21 PST 1999

1710 Irony I. Was (1) Marx & Justice (2)I... -- rank: 247

Hello everyone, When Carrol wrote about dogmatism I diverged from his understanding. So I will go at that point a little. Carrol: But Doug combines a one-phrase zinger attacking dogmatism with his paragraph on irony. Now I think dogmatism is a bit more complex than Doug seems to think it ...

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Author:	Doyle Saylor
Date:	Mon Mar 15 18:51:13 PST 1999