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2341 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

Michael: Woj's idea is that all countries must follow the West's technological path. [WS:] Not slavishly, with local modifications, but more or less. For example, the Soviets modified the Western cartel system to their local conditions - the state took the role played by the banks in the West, but ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Mar 30 08:48:53 PDT 2007

2342 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

Wojtek: That mode of life is not sustainable today, when better alternatives are available. But moving to those alternatives requires massive modernization - basically building a modern industrial society. One cannot do it with sticks and hoes and subsistence farmers with no marketable skills. One needs investments in fixed capital that will ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:11:24 PDT 2007

2343 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

Cuba tended to export many of its most highly educated people. I don't think the goal is to send the rural folk to fight in Africa. As for Cuba's Stalinist infrastructure, much of it was inappropriate after oil became tight. Frequently, tractors were idled while people turned to animal ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Fri Mar 30 09:26:15 PDT 2007

2344 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

Dwayne: If you were given Stalin-esque authority over one of the impoverished, underdeveloped African countries ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Mar 30 11:23:18 PDT 2007

2345 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

... sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > Dwayne: > > > If you were given Stalin-esque authority over one of > the impoverished, underdeveloped African countries ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Mar 30 13:47:01 PDT 2007

2346 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Michael: > > > Woj's idea is that all countries must follow the West's technological path. > > > [WS:] Not slavishly, with local modifications, but more or less. For > example, the Soviets modified the Western cartel system to their local > conditions - the state took the role played by the banks in ...

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Author:	Miles Jackson
Date:	Fri Mar 30 20:51:51 PDT 2007

2347 [lbo-talk] Narmada Dam (was Arundhati Roy etc.) -- rank: 156

... half-assed way, without subduing the tribal warlords the way Stalin subdued the local centers of oppostion in USSR and witjhout ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Sat Mar 31 18:38:02 PDT 2007

2348 [lbo-talk] New Iraq Scapegoat: Condi Rice -- rank: 156

... in government in the first place. > marta > > >It's like Stalin, where they take them out and > shoot > >them one by ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sun Jul 27 10:12:11 PDT 2003

2349 [lbo-talk] discipline -- rank: 156

On 5/2/07, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote: > On May 2, 2007, at 10:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > The Iranians are the Jacobins of the Middle East. > > You've said before that you regard the populations of France, Venezuela and > Iran as being the respective historic jacobins ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu May 3 14:08:21 PDT 2007

2350 [lbo-talk] Today is Sigmund Freud's birthday... -- rank: 156

... something that seems intriguingly profound in its own way. The Stalin fascination is odd, and the Zizekian Lenin is still not ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Mon May 7 08:24:27 PDT 2007

2351 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy -- rank: 156

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > No, Chris admitted, maybe in a side post to me, that > Putin was a classic Russian strongman and that was > what was necessary nowadays. So maybe the issue is > whether that Russians are _unnecessarily_ oppressed, > but Chris has stipulated by implication that they are > oppressed, if maybe less ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed May 9 18:14:09 PDT 2007

2352 Reopening the "Irony & Self Criticism Debate" -- rank: 156

I quote below a tiny part of a post on the marxism list: Gary MacLennan wrote: > Nestor and Jose pointed out that my schema is overly > Euro-centric. Again I agree. That is a persistent fault of mine and one > that needs pointing out. > Any way in which irony would have ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Dec 12 14:09:57 PST 1999

2353 [lbo-talk] Russia's economy (now question of consent) -- rank: 156

I'm not going to respond to the sarcasm. I'm also not really that interested in parsing the exact meaning of a rather ambiguous post from Chris. I read it as saying, OK, whatever the central govt in Russia is doing, it's not oppressive because the Russians consent to ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed May 9 23:22:01 PDT 2007

2354 [lbo-talk] New Iraq Scapegoat: Condi Rice -- rank: 156

... in government in the first place. marta >It's like Stalin, where they take them out and shoot >them one by ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 26 22:17:56 PDT 2003

2355 [lbo-talk] New Iraq Scapegoat: Condi Rice -- rank: 156

It's like Stalin, where they take them out and shoot them one by ...

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sat Jul 26 21:09:27 PDT 2003