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1771 Cuba's Destiny -- rank: 247

... Pacific. We recently had a private exchange of letters about Stalin. He attacked me for not responding to Heartfield's subfusc ... predictable). I then expounded at some length my defence of Stalin[ism]. Rakesh replied to the effect that this all caused ...

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Author:	Mark Jones
Date:	Thu Aug 27 13:25:08 PDT 1998

1772 First world prosperity -- rank: 247

Brad writes: >There was a time during the 1960s when people thought that the continental shelf immediately offshore from Vietnam must be filled with oil--because U.S. stubbornness in Vietnam was inconceivable unless someone stood to profit immensely from the defeat of Ho Chi Minh. Yet that oil was never ...

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Author:	James Devine
Date:	Thu Aug 27 07:29:26 PDT 1998

1773 under-35s -- rank: 247

Fred Baker produced and directed the legendary documentary "Lenny Bruce Without Tears." The film-maker, like his subject, defies conventional expectations. While Fred Baker has worked both sides of the camera in the film business, and has extensive credits on the Broadway stage and television, what sets him apart from the ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Sun Aug 16 14:28:57 PDT 1998

1774 Mark Jones, part 2 -- rank: 247

[Mark Jones (cont.)] Why do you want to pretend that history never happened, except when it suits you? Why do even the academics, especially them, always take the easy way out: Lenin was a liar, a hypocrite, ate babies at breakfast, etc, his program was unconscionable irresponsibility or else deceit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 12 11:48:44 PDT 1998

1775 Mowing Embassies (was sowing dragons) -- rank: 247

... school, Matthew Evangelista, published a paper in the 80s called Stalin's Postwar Army, in which he showed that evidence was available in Western intelligence reports that Stalin wasn't going to be invading anyone in aftermath of ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Tue Apr 11 21:16:15 PDT 2000

1776 [lbo-talk] When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism -- rank: 247

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/new-york-american-communism.html The Brooklyn-born playwright and critic Lionel Abel, who cut his political teeth in left-wing circles in Greenwich Village in the 1930s, remarked in his memoirs that during the Depression years, New York City went to Russia ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Oct 21 08:12:20 PDT 2017

1777 [lbo-talk] prison privatization -- rank: 156

America's Gulag: The Money (in Politics) Behind Prison Privatization The Huffington Post published an excellent pieceyesterday by reporter Chris Kirkham describing how the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to buy up state prisons, all under the guise of helping state governments deal with their budget shortfalls. Called the Corrections ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sun Feb 19 16:37:51 PST 2012

1778 [lbo-talk] Explanatory Note -- rank: 156

... degrees treat Marxism as TOE. He (or he filtered through stalin or Trotsky or the 'pseudo-Lenin" or Mao explains everything ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jan 18 11:55:29 PST 2012

1779 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 156

... was pogrom country. Dennis Redmond <dredmond at efn.org> wrote: > > Stalin slaughtered > Ukrainian peasants because they were Jews. If recent scholarship ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon May 10 00:39:37 PDT 2004

1780 [lbo-talk] Explanatory Note -- rank: 156

... degrees > treat Marxism as TOE. He (or he filtered through stalin or Trotsky or the > 'pseudo-Lenin" or Mao explains everything ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Wed Jan 18 12:16:18 PST 2012

1781 [lbo-talk] Re: Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 156

It would appear for Eagleton's review that Paxton doesn't think Hirohitos' Japan was fascist. Neither is Japan mentioned in a review by G. Pascal Zachary in the SF Chronicle (that I have in hand). That's a blind spot characteristic of views both "Eurocentric" and narrow in their intrepretation ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Sun May 9 17:51:38 PDT 2004

1782 [lbo-talk] Explanatory Note -- rank: 156

... degrees > treat Marxism as TOE. He (or he filtered through stalin or Trotsky or the > 'pseudo-Lenin" or Mao explains everything ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Wed Jan 18 12:16:18 PST 2012

1783 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 156

... leftist" idiocies: -Franco was not a fascist -fascists are "pagans" -"Stalin slaughtered Ukrainian peasants because they were Jews." >

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun May 9 17:37:58 PDT 2004

1784 [lbo-talk] "progressive" -- rank: 156

Always hated that weasel word. Mostly used by socialists and Communists, afraid to be direct and upfront. One of the other loves that dare not speak it's name. Cf. the comments of James Weinstein, founding editor of In These Times ( http://www.inthesetimes.com/ "Bedtime for Bobos By Craig Aaron ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun May 9 13:50:58 PDT 2004

1785 [lbo-talk] Eagleton on fascism -- rank: 156

<http://www.newstatesman.com/site.php3?newTemplate=NSReview_Bshop&newDisplayURN=300000082709> The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O Paxton Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 336pp, £20 ISBN 0713997206 Reviewed by Terry Eagleton Nobody knows on which day of the week the Renaissance started, or in what month the Dark Ages came ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 9 12:10:11 PDT 2004