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2986 English speakers in Russia -- rank: 156

I'm going to stop sending stuff on this thread to the list, as it probably has little interest to anyone but my interlocuter. Well, if they had spoken good English, that would certainly have made them part of the educated class. But the converse doesn't hold. That they didn ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Feb 1 01:28:06 PST 2002

2987 [lbo-talk] Wallerstein on Israel -- rank: 156

"Chronicle of a Suicide Foretold: The Case of Israel" The state of Israel proclaimed its independence at midnight on May 15, 1948. The United Nations had voted to establish two states in what had been Palestine under British rule. The city of Jerusalem was supposed to be an international zone ...

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Author:	John E. Norem
Date:	Thu Jan 15 09:09:08 PST 2009

2988 [lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality -- rank: 156

... reminded of all the criticism in the west of the Stalin and Mao cult of personality. Surely there are a lot ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Tue Jan 20 14:33:18 PST 2009

2989 lbo-talk-digest V1 #7165 -- rank: 156

Putin had a live phone-in-and-talk-to-the-president show last week. These are exerpts dealing with Chechnya. BBC Monitoring President Putin answers questions 19 December 2002: Full Text Source: RTR Russia TV, Moscow, in Russian 0900 gmt 19 Dec 02 [Presenter Yekaterina Andreyeva] Hello, this is a special ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Mon Dec 30 00:46:40 PST 2002

2990 Marxism 101 -- rank: 156

I have been asked about books on Marx. I try here to suggest books which are based strictly on Marx's basic concepts in *Capital* and accessible to the general reader (among whom I count myself). For an introduction to Marx's economic theory: >From 1942, there are three classics: Sweezy ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Sun Sep 6 12:42:10 PDT 1998

2991 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 156

The blog seems like a left analysis (one of long standing) and distinctly non-libertarian. It's mainly the ego-driven style ("the key point I want to hammer into people"---ouch---and "I previously covered these topics in two popular posts") that makes it sound libertarian. Yet presumably the blogger ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Wed Jul 17 13:42:07 PDT 2013

2992 [lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality -- rank: 156

... reminded of all the criticism in the west of the Stalin and Mao cult of > personality. On a slightest alarmist note ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Tue Jan 20 15:30:31 PST 2009

2993 [lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality -- rank: 156

I think the spectacle of the current inauguration should be constitutionally formalised. Every eight years, at the winter solstice, the old, decrepit president should be chained to the base of the Washington Monument, where a frenzied crowd can beat him to death with their shoes. Then, as the dawn's first ...

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Author:	C W Sedley
Date:	Tue Jan 20 16:07:46 PST 2009

2994 [lbo-talk] Obama and the Cult of Personality -- rank: 156

... reminded of all the criticism in the west of the Stalin and Mao cult of > personality. Surely there are a lot ...

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Author:	Dorene Cornwell
Date:	Tue Jan 20 18:12:55 PST 2009

2995 [lbo-talk] death to habermas-reading clerics -- rank: 156

came across this when looking up some student radicals and activists interviewed in the books i've been reading. i thought it imperative to continue the onslaught of propaganda in the name of imperialist u.s. overthrow of the Iranian govt. also, reading about CS reminds me that, for those who ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Jul 3 13:35:18 PDT 2009

2996 FWD: Cohen and Rogers on Noam Chomsky III -- rank: 156

investment no jobs), and thus leads workers to restrain their demands on employers and the state. It also tends to focus those demands on material gain, a concern that can be in some measure satisfied within the system. Second, the characteristic inequalities of resources between capitalists and workers systematically favour the ...

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Author:	William S. Lear
Date:	Sun Dec 6 19:14:35 PST 1998

2997 Wiesel -- rank: 156

... If you think about it, the great literature of the Stalin terror was mostly produced by non-zeks: Grossman's Life ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Dec 23 20:15:24 PST 2002

2998 Archie Bunkers Nightmare -- rank: 156

... there is now a cartoon >show about some kid and Stalin >(I swear to god. I am not making >this up ...

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Author:	pms
Date:	Fri Oct 30 21:51:43 PST 1998

2999 military-industrial conflict -- rank: 156

... of World War ONE. In other words, according to Hardt, Stalin was >correct all the time about intra-imperialist war being ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 18 13:32:37 PST 2002

3000 military-industrial conflict -- rank: 156

... of World War ONE. In other words, according to Hardt, Stalin was correct all the time about intra-imperialist war being ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Dec 18 08:49:47 PST 2002