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2926 Covering Dissent Re: B-52 Bombers, a Long Time Ago... -- rank: 156

... mass base and support, largely because they so slavishly following Stalin's pro-war line that they sided against rank-and ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Jan 4 10:56:20 PST 2002

2927 lbo-talk-digest V1 #5488 -- rank: 156

Monsanto-like, I continue to abuse loopholes in the posts-per-day regulation .... "Seth Ackerman" writes: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [The bourgie consensus is now that the U.S. economy is bottoming, or >> has already bottomed, and is about to turn up, perhaps strongly. The >> leftie consensus is that it's only ...

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Author:	Daniel Davies
Date:	Thu Jan 3 09:50:41 PST 2002

2928 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

SA writes: Dewey's essay is invaluable. I commend it to everyone. His conclusion (after a very thorough analysis of Trotsky's argument): > One more consideration may be added about class struggle as a means. There > are presumably several, perhaps many, different ways by means of which the > class struggle may ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Apr 26 05:19:46 PDT 2009

2929 Soviet Philosophy -- rank: 156

... If we are to get more of the like >of Stalin and Kruschev, well I think the armchair is not so ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Thu Feb 28 13:14:13 PST 2002

2930 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

... than to Russia's social and economic backwardness which produced Stalin, aggravated by the failure of the revolution to spread to ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Apr 26 07:00:05 PDT 2009

2931 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

Socialism in the 19th Century was to be attained by class conscious acts of the workers themselves. This principle ran like a leitmotif through the political documents of the 1st International. In the 20th Century, that notion was effectively dropped down the memory hole in the wake of the dictatorship of ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sun Apr 26 07:27:44 PDT 2009

2932 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

... matters isn't whether Trotsky was a jerk but what Stalin's gulags and executions--which were just the political version ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Sun Apr 26 09:37:43 PDT 2009

2933 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

What I have found fascinating with this conversation is that the option that Trotsky was a profoundly contradictory individual seems to be off the table. If you look at his record, he says some fairly horrifying things in the 20-21 period (within a fairly specific framework.... the argument of Terrorism ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Sun Apr 26 16:12:15 PDT 2009

2934 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

... matters isn't whether > Trotsky was a jerk but what Stalin's gulags and executions--which were > just the political version ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 26 17:39:48 PDT 2009

2935 marxist sociology -- rank: 156

>You take these disciplines as immutable facts. Au contraire. They are contingent variable bureaucratic (in)conveniences. When I was a prof, my colleagues used to grouse that my work wasn't really philosophy because I referred to empirical social science literature, history, etc. I'm a pragmatist. >I find the ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Wed Feb 27 08:11:43 PST 2002

2936 Quotes from Pipes -- rank: 156

I just use a book like this for reference. The most interesting document is one that suggests at the time of writing Trotsky held the view that the Party should keep out of economics. The blurb on the inside jacket cover of the Unknown Lenin quotes two passages, presumably chosen because ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat Sep 19 15:50:38 PDT 1998

2937 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

... conception of hwo we "learn lessons from history." Diatribes against Stalin, for example, are utterly worthless as barricades to whatever new ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Apr 26 19:29:35 PDT 2009

2938 [lbo-talk] Robert Frost Defends Robespierre, Lenin, Mao -- rank: 156

... Leninist principle of giving organisational form to his differences with Stalin and Bukharin, by splitting the RSDLP sooner). Trotsky was (largely ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Apr 27 01:46:21 PDT 2009

2939 Refuting Pipes -- rank: 156

As I am sure Justin is aware, Lou Godena, the Maoist-Stalinist and sole proprietor of the marxism-international list thinks quite highly of Pipes' work including especially his portrayal of Lenin. Godena agrees with Pipes that Lenin was ruthless, devious, brutal, deceitful etc. but unlike Pipes judges these attributes favorably ...

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Author:	James Farmelant
Date:	Sat Sep 19 07:50:04 PDT 1998

2940 marxist sociology -- rank: 156

Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 15:57:36 +0000 From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Marxist sociology I >am well aware that every first year sociology student needs to learn by >rote Marx's definition of class. That's fair enough, except of course that Marx, famously, has ...

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Author:	Tahir Wood
Date:	Tue Feb 26 00:20:48 PST 2002