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1741 Max against anti Stalinism? -- rank: 247

... within the fold of the world's communist parties during Stalin's ascendancy and it would be stupid to dismiss their ... you mention (Lukacs, for instance, tho a long time ago). Stalin himself was another matter -- an utter clod, ignoramus, and butcher ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Thu Apr 22 09:31:21 PDT 1999

1742 Max against anti Stalinism? -- rank: 247

Dear Max, You said something dismissive about wimpy anti Stalinist Leftists. I just found in the bookstore EH Carr's *Twilight of the Comintern* which will shed light (I imagine) on the Stalinist handcuffing of Communist Parties during important turning points in the workers' movement. It will also let me get ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Wed Apr 21 22:38:29 PDT 1999

1743 Warsaw, 1943 and 1944 -- rank: 247

... Ken Lawrence wrote: >W. Kiernan wrote, > ><< just the same as Stalin used up the Jewish partisans in Warsaw; >> > >Say what? Is ... even some Polish >nationalist historians dispute the old saw that Stalin could easily have >liberated Warsaw. I guess nobody but Polish ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:11:35 PDT 1999

1744 Opening Borders -- rank: 247

Angela's checklist, Burford's analysis, and Heartfield's return: > has the NATO intervention saved any lives? Nope. > has the NATO bombing escalated the expulsions and the killings? Yup. > has the NATO intervention entrenched the force of nationalism in the > ex-yu countries? Hard to say, but not necessarily. Collective aid ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Sun Apr 4 13:19:33 PDT 1999

1745 More on Greece -- rank: 247

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Brad De Long wrote: > >>I'm not sure why you say that we don't know what the alternative would have > >>looked like had Greece had a really-existing-socialist government for the > >>entire post-WWII period. We have lots of examples of such governments in ...

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Author:	ALR
Date:	Fri Apr 2 07:41:47 PST 1999

1746 SovArch -- rank: 247

Thanks for posting the Soviet Archives. Interesting stuff, indeed. But what does it actually mean? What I see in it is a conversation between heads of any two states of unequal power at any time, say the US and Israel, US and Indonesia, France and Algeria, Germany and Croatia, etc. Strategic ...

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Author:	sokol at jhu.edu
Date:	Sat Oct 31 09:26:39 PST 1998

1747 Archie Bunker's Nightmare -- rank: 247

... Bruto/Pluto in the > Popeye cartoon looks like > Joe Dugashivili ("Stalin") ? > Anything in the archives > on that ? > > And just the other ... there is now a cartoon > show about some kid and Stalin > (I swear to god. I am not making > this up ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Fri Oct 30 10:44:09 PST 1998

1748 Archie Bunker's Nightmare -- rank: 247

... Bruto/Pluto in the Popeye cartoon looks like Joe Dugashivili ("Stalin") ? Anything in the archives on that ? And just the other ... there is now a cartoon show about some kid and Stalin (I swear to god. I am not making this up ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Oct 30 09:32:56 PST 1998

1749 A(nother) Raving Leftist -- rank: 247

... a tragedy under capitalism, all the moralistic cylinders are firing. < . . . Stalin's gulag was not the product of > philosophical beliefs but conditions rooted in a time and place. Stalin, > who was a member of Lenin's party, read exactly ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Oct 27 07:44:49 PST 1998

1750 A(nother) Raving Leftist -- rank: 247

... and Max Sawicky traffic in is that it is ahistorical. Stalin's gulag was not the product of philosophical beliefs but conditions rooted in a time and place. Stalin, who was a member of Lenin's party, read exactly ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue Oct 27 07:16:40 PST 1998

1751 How to Solve the Economic Crisis in Russia? -- rank: 247

... the US Empire's > military industries -- despite the Cold War, Stalin's hideous purges and > the nightmarish destruction and carnage of ...

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Author:	chang
Date:	Sat Oct 17 16:51:58 PDT 1998

1752 Rebuttal of anti-Sovietism -- rank: 247

Charles Brown: >If things were so horrible under >Stalin, how come nobody ever >betrayed the Soviet Union and >worked ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Fri Oct 16 12:29:23 PDT 1998

1753 Rebuttal of anti-Sovietism -- rank: 247

... brunette who prevailed over cell meetings underneath a portrait of Stalin, in a basement apartment in a Connecticut suburban cul-de ... out for them traitors. There were everywhere. That's why Stalin had to send a hit squad to Mexico, to take ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Fri Oct 16 11:12:54 PDT 1998

1754 Buddhism -- rank: 247

Part III. Daoism (Dao Jiao) as religion is generally regarded by intellectuals as a corruption of its essence as philosophy. Having evolved originally from a mystic search for truth, Daoism has gradually degenerated into practices of secular alchemy aiming to achieve the transformation of metals into gold, and to discover cures ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Sun Nov 15 14:39:20 PST 1998

1755 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 247

... make it up to the 10-20 Suharto range. > >Mao, Stalin, and Hitler are in the 30-60 Suharto range. > > >Charles ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 19 09:17:55 PDT 1998