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3031 war and the state (was milton, etc.) -- rank: 156

Gordon: > It probably wouldn't hurt, but it doesn't have a lot to do > with pacifism -- you can love your enemies while you torture > them to death. It would be very godlike. But I digress. I > would agree with the pacifist label except that people mean > many different things by ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Thu Aug 22 17:56:20 PDT 2002

3032 pootie-poot sends a message -- rank: 156

Not about Iran specifically, but this is the Grand Mufti of Russia and the CIS on Islam, Russia and extremism. I think he's a Tatar. Chris Doss All-Russian Social Political Movement EURASIA «ISLAMIC THREAT OR THREAT TO ISLAM?» INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Moscow, June 28, 2001 Theses of the address of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 20 08:10:41 PDT 2002

3033 "post-leftism" -- rank: 156

From: <billbartlett at dodo.com.au> >Obviously few people are going to freely choose to abandon comfortable lives made possible by modern industrial infrastructure, for a primitive life of subsistence >agriculture. Obviously you live in a fantasy land. The vast majority of the world's population does not live comfortable lives ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Mon Aug 19 13:05:35 PDT 2002

3034 Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism" -- rank: 156

| ... Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com>: > > The anarchist, interested (I would think) in Minute Particulars > > rather than the greatness of the Great Machine, might suggest > > that if we need to shoot people to get airplanes, maybe we > > don't really want airplanes. After all, there are things more > > important (to ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Sun Aug 18 06:07:24 PDT 2002

3035 Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism" -- rank: 156

----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Fitch" <gcf at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 8:50 PM Subject: Re: Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism" > Gordon Fitch wrote: > > > There is no "founder of anarchism", such that utterances of > > > the said person are taken ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Aug 17 23:07:02 PDT 2002

3036 Milton the Anarchist Re: "post-leftism" -- rank: 156

Gordon Fitch wrote: > > There is no "founder of anarchism", such that utterances of > > the said person are taken as an authority upon which "the > > whole anarchist structure is grounded", whether on a > > metaphysical claim or on anything else. Carrol Cox: > Yup, I was rather extravagant. But I did say "one of ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Sat Aug 17 20:50:58 PDT 2002

3037 Porn (Stiglitz on Russia) -- rank: 156

> >On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Chris Doss wrote: > > > A friend of mine was a Komsomol leader in the early 80s. His mother, who > > was one of the SU's biggest geologists, picked him up of Playboy at one > > of her overseas conferences. He was terrified smuggling it back to his ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Aug 16 13:43:52 PDT 2002

3038 libertarianism & left/right -- rank: 156

> I think that left/right convergence around libertarianism is inevitable. I posted something on this a > week or two ago in relation to "individualist anarchism" and I have raised dangers relating to the term > "libertarianism" on other lists too. The fact is that if your point of departure is anti ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Thu Aug 15 21:32:56 PDT 2002

3039 Jewish Autonomous Region -- rank: 156

... there is a Jewish Autonomous District in Russia, created by Stalin as his answer to Zionism. It is in teh Far ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Aug 15 11:02:00 PDT 2002

3040 [lbo-talk] Surrealists and Marxism (was homosexuality) -- rank: 156

... The Party was embarrassed by Picasso's jaunty drawing of Stalin for his birthday, but he stayed in the party. Breton ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jun 5 11:22:53 PDT 2009

3041 [lbo-talk] planned economy [was: Hamid Dabashi on Iran] -- rank: 156

I'm being clever. Stalin's comment refered to Poland. I meant that applying an ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Jun 18 13:37:02 PDT 2009

3042 [lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran -- rank: 156

... who isn't a student of Soviet history believes that Stalin had 20, 30, 40, 50 million people executed (as opposed ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jun 21 21:40:13 PDT 2009

3043 [lbo-talk] Gawker: seize the banks! -- rank: 156

<http://gawker.com/5170631/obama-now-faces-terrifying-threat-of- populism> POPULISM Obama Now Faces Terrifying Threat of 'Populism' By Pareene, 11:07 AM on Mon Mar 16 2009, 833 views Confused, misdirected populist rage threatens Obama from all sides! And there's really nothing he can do! Well, there ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 16 08:47:34 PDT 2009

3044 libertarianism & left/right -- rank: 156

... are moralistic, nationalist, quasi-humanist approaches to > liberation-- i.e., Stalin's manufactured notion of "socialism in one > country". (Remember that ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Tue Aug 13 19:48:57 PDT 2002

3045 [lbo-talk] "I like rightists" -- rank: 156

Like Stalin, Mao was adept at zig and zag as the situation ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Tue May 5 17:34:19 PDT 2009