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1801 [lbo-talk] Shorris on Strauss -- rank: 156

Let's go a bit further on this. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Luxemburg, et al were not revolutionaries because they were ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 3 19:27:02 PDT 2012

1802 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change -- rank: 156

... Khrushchev , General Secretary ( top >leader) of the CPSU, did criticize Stalin for murderous repression. True. And the union organizing in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 15:15:36 PDT 2004

1803 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change -- rank: 156

... Khrushchev , General Secretary ( top leader) of the CPSU, did criticize Stalin for murderous repression. This was frank and open self-criticism ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue May 4 15:05:32 PDT 2004

1804 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd Archer" <todda39 at hotmail.com> Nathan said: >The difference between pretty dresses and gulags is that I think pretty >dresses don't harm anyone else. -Some people might think that those wearing pretty dresses cause what they -get. Likewise, some people might think that those who ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Tue May 4 13:48:02 PDT 2004

1805 [lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight? -- rank: 156

... I think this needs substantial qualification. The regime liberalised after Stalin because the old methods were becoming inefficient. When Kruschev raised ...

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Author:	www.leninology. blogspot.com
Date:	Tue May 4 13:31:51 PDT 2004

1806 [lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight? -- rank: 156

... even Ronnie probably knew that there were important differences between Stalin and Gorby. Justin: y

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Tue May 4 12:22:22 PDT 2004

1807 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/business/media/alexander-cockburn-left- wing-writer-dies-at-71.html?_r=1 July 21, 2012 Alexander Cockburn, Left-Wing Writer, Is Dead at 71 By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jul 21 15:47:07 PDT 2012

1808 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

Mean-spirited and tendentious, without the courage to take on Cockburn's politics. "Information on Mr. Cockburn's survivors was not immediately available" does not speak well for the Times' reportorial skills. On Jul 21, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/business ...

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Author:	Carl G. Estabrook
Date:	Sat Jul 21 16:00:26 PDT 2012

1809 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

The lead sentence on the web site is one of the ugliest bits of prose you'll ever see. Makes me think even I could have been a journalist. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07 ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Sat Jul 21 18:24:29 PDT 2012

1810 [lbo-talk] RE: Ya get whatchya settle for -- rank: 156

WHY I WILL NOT VOTE IN 2004 By Carolyn Baker The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful and virtuous. Frederick Douglass On May 3, 2004, the California Secretary of State nixed all electronic, touch-screen voting in the state and called for the criminal ...

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Author:	Joseph Wanzala
Date:	Tue May 4 10:56:52 PDT 2004

1811 [lbo-talk] The state and power (was Re-intro) -- rank: 156

Doug Henwood wrote: > > I'm all for democratic management, but > it's going to require the delegation of authority - i.e., something > like parliamentary and executive structures. You can't either be for or against such a structure until you have _some_ idea of all the activity that leads from here ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Tue Jul 18 01:40:14 PDT 2006

1812 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

... Gagarin was an animatronic robot. By the way, why is Stalin killing "loyal Bolsheviks" somehow worse that Lenin and Trotsky killing ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue May 4 09:48:48 PDT 2004

1813 [lbo-talk] Didn't See The Same Movie -- rank: 156

I just couldn't resist pasting some extracts below from a recent piece by Loren Goldner called Didn't See The Same Movie: Review of Max Elbaum, Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che. London/New York, Verso, 2002. I think this review, which is hilarious ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Tue May 4 07:13:19 PDT 2004

1814 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

... USSR. One more thing you liberal democrats forget is that Stalin was quite popular. And yet another thing that slips your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 4 06:33:34 PDT 2004

1815 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? -- rank: 156

... thing, Communists, liberals, everybody. It was a catastrophe. The post-Stalin USSR was not a tyranny. It was a mildly authoritarian ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue May 4 02:16:05 PDT 2004