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2281 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche) -- rank: 156

I never said that Luxemburg was a liberal, just that she was right about the direction the Russian revolution was taking. I never presumed to compare my eloquence with hers. I'm not a "beautiful soul" who disdains to make moral compromises, but I repeat that at present I do not ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jul 3 12:18:46 PDT 2007

2282 Harry , a son of the Devil himself -- rank: 156

... me: each time another stooge mourns for the loss of Stalin I can feel myself being shifted rightward. I need to ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue Dec 14 09:11:43 PST 1999

2283 [lbo-talk] catastrophism -- rank: 156

Thanks, Marv. The figure given seems at least a good starting point. A few years ago someone on pen-l (responding to a question I had raised) estimated that "surplus deaths" from IMF 'activity' amounted to around 20 million plus. One can also run into "what might have been" issues. The ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Oct 14 08:33:53 PDT 2012

2284 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with -- rank: 156

Hi Michael Hoover, You wrote concerning Madame Kollontai > >When K was removed from her position as head of the women's commission >(a post she was given only after Inessa Armand, who had been active on >women's issues for less time but was personally and politically close >to Lenin, died ...

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Author:	jmage at panix.com
Date:	Mon Dec 13 18:24:21 PST 1999

2285 [lbo-talk] Pavlov, Soviet psychology, and Harry K. Wells -- rank: 156

This came up as part of a thread in an FB group, in which I tam a member. The discussion turned to the role of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, in the Soviet Union. As I pointed out: Pavlov attacked the Bolsheviks. He intended to leave Russia after the October ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Sep 9 10:54:25 PDT 2016

2286 [lbo-talk] Government powers (was: Emailer setting request) -- rank: 156

... popular of all is Peter the Great. Well, didn't Stalin hold him out as a role model? Jim F. > Barkley ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Jun 12 12:33:59 PDT 2003

2287 [lbo-talk] Government powers (was: Emailer setting request) -- rank: 156

>Chris: > > > > Lenin's more popular than Tsar Nicolas II among Russians, at least. > >That was not my impression during my visit to Leningrad/St. Petersburg >last year. The only Lenin's monument I saw was one at a suburban train >station, and it was pretty dilapidated - pretty sad view, indeed ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jun 11 09:57:25 PDT 2003

2288 [lbo-talk] Tan Malaka (was Liberalism) -- rank: 156

On 7/6/07, KJ <kjinkhoo at gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/07/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote: > > For instance, very few > > leftists in the USA know anything about Tan Malaka, whose thoughts are > > more useful to us than Lenin's. <snip> > Tan Malaka is not of ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Jul 7 06:11:10 PDT 2007

2289 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche) -- rank: 156

Well, we don't disagree about the role of radicals in establishing liberal goals. Rads are, as you and Charles say, the most consistent libs, in fact, fully consistent libs have to be rads. However, you diminish the role of actual (non-rad) liberals who did good things. For example, as ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sat Jul 7 20:21:31 PDT 2007

2290 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 156

... by the character of Strelnikov in Dr. Zhivago!).... Trotsky and Stalin differed substantially about the future course of Communism, and Trotsky ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:37:36 PDT 2012

2291 [lbo-talk] Turksib -- rank: 156

***** The Movie _Turksib_ and Soviet Orientalism Matt Payne Emory University 1 Introduction In the fall of 1929, yet another pioneering Soviet film premiered in Berlin to critical acclaim. The Berlin _Film-Kurier_ reported that, like Sergei Eisenstein's _The Battleship Potemkin_ [_Bronenosets Potemkin_ 1926], "the film . . . has created an impression ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 10 07:51:55 PDT 2003

2292 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 156

... and all of Lenin's other close associates attest that Stalin is number 2. To work to give the #2 bad ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Dec 13 15:58:44 PST 1999

2293 [lbo-talk] Movies for the Masses -- rank: 156

***** Movies for the Masses Popular Cinema and Soviet Society in the 1920s Denise J. Youngblood £21.95 February 1994 | Paperback (Hardback) | 279 pages 33 half-tones 8 tables | ISBN: 0521466326 In stock This book is a pathbreaking study of the 'unknown' Soviet cinema: the popular movies which were central to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 10 03:33:46 PDT 2003

2294 [lbo-talk] and then there's always war movies.... -- rank: 156

... German war in east Africa) Alexander Nevsky (a favorite of Stalin's, the Teutonic Knights wear coal scuttle helmets) Saving private ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Oct 29 09:10:44 PDT 2012

2295 [lbo-talk] Liberalism (Was Re: Nietzsche) -- rank: 156

it occurs to me (which means I'm not sure I can support it) that both radicalism and liberalism have been traditionally weaker than nationalism, and so both should not be blamed for succombing to it. The better question might be, which stands up better to nationalsim, here considered as a ...

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Sun Jul 8 06:15:22 PDT 2007