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1726 "Experiment" (was Re: Great Cockburn/St. Clair piece on Seattle) -- rank: 247

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 is very far from clear what kind of a ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Fri Dec 17 11:40:58 PST 1999

1727 Zizek within the limits of mere reason -- rank: 247

CB wrote: > Below, Zizek's theory of "recourse to conspiracy theories" is spun from thin air, like an Alice in Wonderland tale. There is no real phenomenon of the type he imagines. So why do you lock your doors when you leave home? Why "debate" at all? All attempts to formulate ...

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Author:	kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca
Date:	Fri Dec 17 06:28:59 PST 1999

1728 Harry , a son of the Devil himself -- rank: 247

>How many people would Stalin have to have killed before you would >trust him *less ... to have killed before you would trust him less than >Stalin (question mark( If 30 million doesn't do it, what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 13 17:01:17 PST 1999

1729 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 247

... away from the question of whether Julius Rosenberg's giving Stalin the bomb was a good idea, aren't we? (((((((((((( Charles ... dropping the bomb on the Japanese had it. I trust Stalin more than Harry Truman . CB

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:49:02 PST 1999

1730 Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism -- rank: 247

... the offensive against Poland (they could simply had defended themselves- Stalin and Trotsky were against the offensive to Warsaw)added to ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Dec 13 12:46:00 PST 1999

1731 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with -- rank: 247

... Alexandra Kollontai > She never broke with, nor > was broken by, Stalin once he assumed the power. > In 1921 Lenin in a ... instead a "Soviet Morality" that was > fully adopted by the Stalin regime and that IMHO is in some degree > responsible for ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Mon Dec 13 11:23:45 PST 1999

1732 Anarchism vs. Marxism-Leninism -- rank: 247

Brett Knowlton wrote: > > No. But they were responsible for putting down the Kronstadt uprising, > which was a reaction against stripping the soviets of their power and > centralizing authority in the Bolshevik party. They were also responsible > for putting down the Mahknovist movement, as Jamal mentions below: > Hi Brett, I wasn't ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Fri Dec 10 12:01:44 PST 1999

1733 Stalinism (was Re: Anti-Democratic America) -- rank: 247

... t particularly want to get into a long argument about Stalin and > Stalinism, but I was just wondering: Charles, what is ... to be a marxist one *must* have an opinion on Stalin. I do have one opinion on him that Sebastiano Timpanaro ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Dec 10 10:43:48 PST 1999

1734 Anti-Democratic America -- rank: 247

Charles, First let me apologize for implicitly comparing you to Henry Kissinger - I respect you views, and agree with you on a lot of other issues. I only meant to point out that I thought (and still do) that you were using the same method of rationalization to defend soviet aggression ...

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Author:	Brett Knowlton
Date:	Fri Dec 10 08:46:39 PST 1999

1735 Stalinism (was Re: Anti-Democratic America) -- rank: 247

... t particularly want to get into a long argument about Stalin and Stalinism, but I was just wondering: Charles, what is ... And what do you think of Trotsky - was he, as Stalin claimed, a counter-revolutionary? Should he have been murdered? Peter ...

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Author:	Mr P.A. Van Heusden
Date:	Fri Dec 10 08:04:20 PST 1999

1736 [Fwd: Re: Grumpy lefties and VENONA] -- rank: 247

Apsken at aol.com wrote: > > Would Katha also be shocked, shocked, to learn that an occasional red in > the 1950s might indeed have sought to overthrow the United States government, > despite having pleaded innocent to such charges during the Smith Act show > trials? > The purpose of those trials, and the Rosenberg ...

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Author:	Katha Pollitt
Date:	Thu Dec 9 06:26:58 PST 1999

1737 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 247

... service to humanity," not a tremendous service. >And was giving Stalin nuclear secrets such a great idea? Isn't that part ... that US communists, despite their progressive work, did not >understand Stalin's Russia for what it was. You ought to understand ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 8 19:10:06 PST 1999

1738 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 247

... Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Jacob Segal wrote: > And was giving Stalin nuclear secrets such a great idea? Isn't that part ... that US communists, despite their progressive work, did not > understand Stalin's Russia for what it was. (Ahem). Anyone with even ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Wed Dec 8 17:52:18 PST 1999

1739 Grumpy lefties and VENONA -- rank: 247

... just the admit the facts are true. And was giving Stalin nuclear secrets such a great idea? Isn't that part ... that US communists, despite their progressive work, did not understand Stalin's Russia for what it was. Jacob

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Author:	Jacob Segal
Date:	Wed Dec 8 17:18:53 PST 1999

1740 Anarchism / Marxism debate -- rank: 247

I find it interesting that these Marxist-Leninists twist Chomsky's words so that it looks like he is saying workers control (real socialism) can exist "whether in capitalist enterprise or an absolutist state", rather than stating what Chomsky actualy said, which was that the phony socialism of Leninists can exist ...

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Author:	Jamal Hannah x342446
Date:	Tue Aug 17 01:03:04 PDT 1999