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1831 Liu's China -- rank: 156

The dictionary defines Proletariat as: 1) the lowest social or economic class of a society; 2) industrial workers who lack their own means of production and hence sell their labor to live. In Chinese revolutionary discourse, the term proletariat is trnaslated as property-less class which includes the landless peasants. Henry ...

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Author:	Henry C.K. Liu
Date:	Wed Jun 9 11:13:54 PDT 1999

1832 Liu's China -- rank: 156

Jim, we as Americans tend to downplay the fact that Lenin was a politician and that he had a political power base among the Russian industrial workers in the main cities of Russia. Namely St. Petersburg/Petrograd and Moscow. Although this power base may have been small in ratio to the ...

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Author:	Tom Lehman
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:59:25 PDT 1999

1833 Liu's China -- rank: 156

... and Engels, the proletariat makes the >revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes the >proletariat? And the party ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:46:18 PDT 1999

1834 [lbo-talk] Re: Orwell -- rank: 156

... PCF CC in the twenties, Boris Souvraine, pioneering bio of Stalin, from the late 20's. circulted widely as well. For ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Mar 21 09:55:39 PST 2004

1835 [lbo-talk] How to Read -- rank: 156

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/works/onmarx/althusse.htm Early Writings, The Spectre of Hegel, 1953 Louis Althusser On Marxism Written: 1953 Source:Louis Althusser, Early Writings, The Spectre of Hegel Translated by: G M Goshgarian Publisher: Verso, 1997 HTML Markup: Andy Blunden Marxism constitutes one of the main ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Mar 17 14:35:36 PST 2004

1836 [lbo-talk] " Race " in Russia -- rank: 156

... and Germany, most of the GenSecs were non-Russians, and Stalin was a "Black," looked it, and spoke with a very ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Wed Mar 17 01:18:14 PST 2004

1837 [lbo-talk] Gorbachev's belated victory ? -- rank: 156

Gorbachev's belated victory? By Peter Lavelle Published on March 12, 2004 This article was written for UPI - United Press International MOSCOW, March 12 (UPI) -- Nineteen years ago this week Mikhail Gorbachev became the general-secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On March 14, President Vladimir Putin is ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Sun Mar 14 04:25:24 PST 2004

1838 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 156

In arguing that the Soviet Economy was less efficient than the American I am not arguing that the American was efficient, only that the Soviet was grotesquely inefficient. Michael argues that the Soviet economy had no speculative finance sector. Agreed. But it had its own bizarre inefficiences that far outweighed even ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 18 01:52:44 PDT 1998

1839 [lbo-talk] the cult of Putinism -- rank: 156

An iron fist in an iron glove >From the KGB to cult hero - two books, Inside Putin's Russia and Putin's Progress, show how Russia's hard-line President has created the cult of Putinism Ed Vulliamy Sunday March 14, 2004 The Observer Inside Putin's Russia by Andrew Jack ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Sat Mar 13 16:09:32 PST 2004

1840 [lbo-talk] Rose Revolution Redux -- rank: 156

... already being openly compared to 1937 and the regime of Stalin, the shutting down of TV news and analysis programs might ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Fri Mar 12 07:26:38 PST 2004

1841 Japanese Democracy -- rank: 156

... shining moments of democracy, the glory days of McCarthyism or Stalin's 1947-48 Eastern European purges and recurrent Zhdanovism? It ...

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Author:	Dennis R Redmond
Date:	Wed Jul 15 18:00:18 PDT 1998

1842 Liu's China -- rank: 156

... 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:	Barbara Laurence
Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:03:37 PDT 1999

1843 [lbo-talk] Hilary Putnam -- rank: 156

Another philosopher, Hilary Putnam, offers a counterpoint to Rorty. A former Marxist-Leninst and SDS faculty advisor "connected with a Maoist group," Putnam concluded in 1972 "that I would rather be governed by Nixon than by my own ‘comrades.’" He offers a piece of wisdom for those who think ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Mar 7 09:55:14 PST 2004

1844 [lbo-talk] social democracy vs marxism -- rank: 156

... of the >population (unlike a decade or two later, when Stalin >really did have the support of the majorit

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Wed Jul 26 12:10:08 PDT 2006

1845 [lbo-talk] Lenin -- rank: 156

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > > In Lenin's case, one can argue that he attempted to > make the best of a series of bad situations. The world > did not follow his theory, but it presented his party > with a series of bad choices. He might have said, and > encouraged other Bolsheviks to say ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Mar 3 18:05:49 PST 2004