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2236 [lbo-talk] Benazir Bhutto reportedly assasinated in a suicide bomb attack -- rank: 156

I agree with Chuck. I am a Libertarian Socialist and can't believe the way people on the left grovel to the likes of clowns like Fidel and Chavez. And by the way - Tariq Ali was a Trotskyist - and we know what Trotsky did to Mahkno and the anarchists/soviets after ...

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Author:	Paul Papadeas
Date:	Fri Dec 28 14:54:23 PST 2007

2237 [lbo-talk] Creeping Fascism -- rank: 156

On Dec 29, 2007 12:41 AM, Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> quoted Eric Fromm: > "The feature common to all authoritarian thinking is the conviction that life > is determined by forces outside of man's own self, his interest, his wishes. > The only possible happiness lies in the submission ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Dec 30 14:32:14 PST 2007

2238 [lbo-talk] Ven: Hasta la vista Monroe -- rank: 156

Why Hugo Chávez Was Given More Authority By Maria Páez Victor, PhD. 2 February 2007 This week, the parliament of Venezuela gave President Hugo Chávez, the authority to pass laws by decree for the next 18 months on 10 issues of domestic importance. This type of power has a time limit ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Feb 3 12:32:48 PST 2007

2239 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Anthem Unplugged -- rank: 156

... the first time I've ever heard Brezhnev's or Stalin's voice. There's so much stuff on youtube. Look ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Feb 6 13:33:27 PST 2007

2240 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Anthem Unplugged -- rank: 156

I would certainly agree that many of these movements were inspired by the USSR and I have a profound respect for the Party organizers who risked (and in certain cases, gave up) their lives to try to create a radically new society. But it was U.S. workers who shut down ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Feb 7 08:47:39 PST 2007

2241 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Anthem Unplugged -- rank: 156

... CB: Lets say you or Trotsky or Bukharin had defeated > Stalin in the internal > party struggles. What would you have done ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:14:55 PST 2007

2242 [lbo-talk] The Soviet Anthem Unplugged -- rank: 156

... CB: Lets say you or Trotsky or Bukharin had defeated Stalin in the > internal > party struggles. What would you have done ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:38:10 PST 2007

2243 [lbo-talk] Servility -- rank: 156

... rate is said to be as high as that under Stalin in the USSR. Beyond that, masses, when unorganized, tend toward ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Feb 11 08:48:46 PST 2007

2244 [lbo-talk] Pat on Vlad -- rank: 156

February 13, 2007 Does Putin Not Have a Point? By Patrick J. Buchanan "A soft answer turneth away wrath," teaches Proverbs 1:15. Our new secretary of defense, Roberts Gates, seems familiar with the verse. For his handling of Saturday's wintry blast from Vladimir Putin at the Munich security conference ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 14 14:02:27 PST 2007

2245 [lbo-talk] Servility -- rank: 156

... rate is said to be as high as that under Stalin in the USSR. Beyond that, masses, when unorganized, tend toward ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Wed Feb 14 15:30:39 PST 2007

2246 [lbo-talk] Jobs in religion, was Marxism and Religion -- rank: 156

He didn't think the twain could meet. > Blind Willie Johnson > was a religious blues singer, but he's something of > an exception. The Rev. Gary Davis? He worked both sides of the street. But the "blues" is sort of a postwar marketing construct, I think. When Robert Johnson was selling ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Feb 27 19:45:57 PST 2007

2247 [lbo-talk] Russian revolution material -- rank: 156

... is of course ancient stuff from when the Trotsky-or-Stalin debate was a live on on the US and in ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Feb 28 10:34:15 PST 2007

2248 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

... murder. Second only to the > Ukrainian nationalists. Nope. Didn't Stalin kill 32 million people? I'm just making shit up ...

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Author:	chuck at mutualaid.org
Date:	Mon Jan 1 13:40:06 PST 2007

2249 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

> > Stalin did not kill 32 million people. He killed about > 8 million. And he was hardly in the picture when the > nationalists, anarchists, whites and reds were on > their respective killing sprees in the Civil War. Oh brother, you just don't get it. > There were no good guys in ...

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Author:	chuck at mutualaid.org
Date:	Mon Jan 1 15:16:46 PST 2007

2250 [lbo-talk] Fidel -- rank: 156

Chew on this CB.Doug, as a fellow reader of Workers Vanguard, too. http://www.infoshop.org/myep/love6.html Stalinism's Loyal Opposition: The Counter-Revolutionary Politics of Trotsky This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the comically obnoxious ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jan 1 16:04:23 PST 2007