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3271 Mao's Poetry -- rank: 156

... So did Ho in Vietnamese > >incidentally. > > >Carrol > > >Yes, yes, and Stalin liked to read several newspapers a day. Years ago I ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Sat Jan 6 16:40:51 PST 2001

3272 Mao's Poetry -- rank: 156

... So did Ho in Vietnamese >incidentally. >Carrol Yes, yes, and Stalin liked to read several newspapers a day. Years ago I ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer
Date:	Sat Jan 6 04:59:38 PST 2001

3273 Fw: The Modern Vanguard Party -- rank: 156

Joe R. Golowka JoeG at ieee.org Anarchist FAQ - http://www.anarchistfaq.org "The State is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of human behavior; we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently" - Gustav Landauer ----- Original Message ----- > Founders Plan Virginia Campus To Train a Christian ...

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Author:	Joe R. Golowka
Date:	Thu Feb 22 12:53:27 PST 2001

3274 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Guardian: Amal Clooney advises Greece on return of Parthenon marbles to Athens -- rank: 156

... from the Nazi collaborators put into power by Churchill and Stalin in 1944 (when Churchill was denouncing the menace of "naked ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sun Oct 19 16:36:24 PDT 2014

3275 [lbo-talk] Then end of Stalinism was a good thing -- rank: 156

I think so. It certainly was during Stalin (then again, Great Depression and all that). It was a ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 18 23:42:55 PDT 2010

3276 Re marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 156

>>> gcf at panix.com 02/20/01 07:40AM >>> Capitalism requires that some have much, and others little or nothing, so that the capitalist political and economic role can be enacted; that is, capitalists require a working class. But assuming human beings are at least potentially willful, autonomous, and self ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Feb 20 08:48:54 PST 2001

3277 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 156

George Thomas: you wrongly conflate capitalism (an economic system) with authoritarianism (or totalitarianism, forms of rule). What examples would you bring forth to show that capitalism itself (and not a dictator or other despot) is at fault? > George, you are trying to have it both ways when you slam historical Communsim ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Tue Feb 20 06:42:33 PST 2001

3278 Re marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 156

> You mentioned poor nations (aka the third world) earlier, the Black Book of Communism describes Cuba as interminable totalitarianism, Nicaragua as a failed totalitarian project and Peru as a hotbed of bloody insurgency, with a nod to communist insurgents. > George Thomas I'm not sure if you are referring positively ...

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Author:	Dennis
Date:	Tue Feb 20 05:24:58 PST 2001

3279 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 156

... satellites during the second half of the 20th century (post-Stalin) was not remotely comparable to the scale and savagery of ...

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Author:	George Thomas
Date:	Mon Feb 19 21:07:13 PST 2001

3280 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 156

>From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> >Here the answer is complex. Capitalism has brought the greatest advances in >human well being in human history, immense increases in longevity, wealth, >productivity, etc. At the same time, it has also brought the most terrible >wars in history, as nations now armed ...

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Author:	Joseph Raso
Date:	Tue Feb 20 04:27:29 PST 2001

3281 [lbo-talk] Then end of Stalinism was a good thing -- rank: 156

James" "Statistics are deceptive on this since nominal growth in output fails to register the poor quality of the goods being produced (to the point where even newly made goods needed to be repaired, and much of output was simply useless). The economy's failures were (within the constricted terms that ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Apr 19 10:03:05 PDT 2010

3282 Commodifying communism -- rank: 156

<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/World/Russia/2001-02/stalin150201.shtml> Welcome to StalinWorld You won't believe how bad it is (or even that it exists. But it does, comrades, it really does) By Robert Chalmers 15 February 2001 Tasteless?" Mr Malinauskas stared out towards the electric fence ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Thu Feb 15 17:33:31 PST 2001

3283 World Crisis -- rank: 156

Just some thoughts. NICs in crisis ------------- What brought it on: no capital controls (China is weathering the storm after all); the fixed or pegged exchange rate system; reckless lending of excess capital, a la Chesnais; crony capitalism; faulty bank regulation; the lack of vigilance inspired by the bailout of Mexico; the ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Wed Oct 14 19:03:42 PDT 1998

3284 DIY anarchist bookstall/distribution using PD -- rank: 156

... blackened.net/revolt/wsm/pdf.html -------- Files currently available include Stalin didn't fall from the moon A 12 page pamphlet ...

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Author:	Joe Black
Date:	Wed Feb 14 06:43:04 PST 2001

3285 [lbo-talk] forcing 9/11 "balance" at Pacifica -- rank: 156

... Churchill was on both sides, as was Cockburn's hero, Stalin (and more than once on each side). On 9-11 ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Apr 27 08:17:43 PDT 2010