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1711 Irony I. Was (1) Marx & Justice (2)lefter-than-thou-ness -- rank: 247

digloria[kelley]@mindspring.com wrote: > >yeah but catherine y'all get the kewler status of having dossiers kept on > you about your activities trying to smuggle irony across the borders when > you visit the states. I must confess that despite many years study of Irony I have never quite been able ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Mar 14 07:38:31 PST 1999

1712 Liu's China -- rank: 247

... they were, did not make any revolution except intellectually. Lenin, Stalin and Mao did. Henry C.K. Liu Barbara Laurence wrote ... and Engels, the proletariat makes the > revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes the > proletariat? > Jim O'Connor

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:33:44 PDT 1999

1713 Liu's China -- rank: 247

... fundamental issues such as the one you articulate. So , do Stalin and Mao, from what I know. Also, generally in a ... and Engels, the proletariat makes the revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes the proletariat? Jim O'Connor

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:25:50 PDT 1999

1714 A word on the historical economic stats USSR vs Everyone else -- rank: 247

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 06/08/99 03:36PM >> My point is that the achievements of Soviet industrialization were not insubstantial. We can argue about what numbers to put on this, but the central point is being forgotten. We can say that it happened at tremendous social cost ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Jun 8 13:28:48 PDT 1999

1715 Comparing Clinton regime to Hitler regime -- rank: 247

>>> Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> 06/07/99 07:53PM >>> > >Charles: But a news item has just been posted claiming that the current >Clinton regime ( of which someone said you were a member) , through its >control of the IMF , has managed to shove 200 million people into ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Jun 8 06:54:11 PDT 1999

1716 Mao's premature death -- rank: 247

... in 1925]. "The dialectics of history have > already hooked him [Stalin] and will raise him up. He is > needed by all ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jun 7 14:51:00 PDT 1999

1717 Comparing Mao to Hitler -- rank: 247

... in 1925]. "The dialectics of history have already hooked him [Stalin] and will raise him up. He is needed by all ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon Jun 7 06:23:07 PDT 1999

1718 Comparing Mao to Hitler -- rank: 247

Has anyone read Stephen Andors' or John Gurley's defenses of Maoist economic strategy? Or Michel Chossudovsky's appraisal? Mark Selden's or Victor Nee's? From an impossible to get edition of Root and Branch: A Libertarian Marxist Journal 8, Bill Russell argues that Maoism was actually the Stalinist crash ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Sun Jun 6 15:24:30 PDT 1999

1719 Comparing Mao to Hitler -- rank: 247

Many others find DeLongs' "caricature" unconvincing. I take the liberty of reposting one of them. Henry C.k. Liu Subject: laws of history Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 07:05:27 -0400 From: Patrick Manning <manning at neu.edu> Reply-To: H-NET List for World History <H-WORLD at H ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sun Jun 6 06:53:12 PDT 1999

1720 Paul Mattick and Otto Strasser -- rank: 247

Jim heartfield wrote, << I'm glad that Ken has posted his full account of the evidence, since to my mind it is less than conclusive as regards Mattick, let alone demonstrating that Rakesh is a fascist. >> As Rakesh acknowledged, he introduced the logic in his accusations against Malcolm X. I certainly ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Wed Jan 13 15:56:13 PST 1999

1721 Paul Mattick and Otto Strasser -- rank: 247

I'm glad that Ken has posted his full account of the evidence, since to my mind it is less than conclusive as regards Mattick, let alone demonstrating that Rakesh is a fascist. First the documentation is less than perfect. But taking Ken on his word, as of course I am ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 13 13:40:48 PST 1999

1722 British Stalinism -- rank: 247

... a >>choice, I'd prefer to have portraits of Joseph Stalin on the wall than the >>Tony Blair portraits these birds ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 9 04:12:40 PST 1999

1723 Hitchens- With Friends Like This... -- rank: 247

R I G H T_O N ! _|_ D A V I D_H O R O W I T Z SALON Hats off to a condemned man - - - - - - - - - - - - - CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS' ONLY CRIME WAS TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ABOUT SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL TO A COMMUNITY THAT HATES THE TRUTH. Let's begin by acknowledging ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Sun Feb 28 20:20:11 PST 1999

1724 "Experiment" (was Re: Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle) -- rank: 247

At 14:40 17/12/99 -0500, you wrote: >ChuckO, > Well, the more serious question here is "what >was the alternative?" That is very far from clear. The >immediate alternative was probably the SR's, who, >after all, won the Duma election of December, 1917, >the one that Lenin overturned. It ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Fri Dec 17 16:39:58 PST 1999

1725 Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism: Marxism-Leninism wins ! -- rank: 247

... 13 Dec 1999, Charles Brown wrote: > >> >Then you agree with Stalin and Bukharin that socialism is possible in a >> >single backward ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Fri Dec 17 16:24:03 PST 1999