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3301 Hitchens on genocide -- rank: 156

> David Stannard's point remains: substitute "Jew" for "Native >American/indigene" in Hitchens' prose, and you have a recognizably >Nazi argument. I don't remember "it happens to be the way history is >made" having worked very well at Nuremberg. First of all the Nazis blamed the Jews for all ...

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Author:	Peter K.
Date:	Thu Dec 6 17:02:38 PST 2001

3302 An apology to ...Re history of word "idiot" -- rank: 156

Carrol Cox wrote: > Doyle Saylor wrote: > > > > So while I agree with Doyle in connecting the everyday use of "moron" and > "idiot" with the social treatment of disability, I would suggest that if one > attends to the history of "idiot," one could justify Carl using that term in > reference to Max, for ...

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Author:	Michael Cohen
Date:	Wed Oct 14 16:58:43 PDT 1998

3303 [lbo-talk] profits -- rank: 156

... And those who _made_ a theorist out of him (primarily Stalin and Trotsky) royally fucked up in doing so. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Aug 20 13:11:41 PDT 2010

3304 Post-Galbraoith Warfare- Bombing can win wars -- rank: 156

G'day Michaels, > Michael, I don't think this is at all right. The main strategic goal of > strategic bombing was enemy morale, and their main targets were not > civilian infrastructure but civilians themselves: Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, > Hiroshima. Absolutely right. > The American talked about economic chokepoints for much of the war ...

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Author:	rws at comedu.canberra.edu.au
Date:	Sat Dec 1 19:48:19 PST 2001

3305 The End of Welfare as We Don't Know It -- rank: 156

... s death toll of 62 million at the hands of Stalin on his web page to score anticommunist points, I'd ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Mon Oct 12 11:19:56 PDT 1998

3306 Gus Hall of the CPUSA, did not say this. -- rank: 156

Yup, of coarse, that anti-semite, Christian Identity loon, Pete Peters, was wrong, in saying Gus was Jewish. He was a Finn. ("In Like Finn!" I mean Flynn...who was Flynn, btw? Not Elizabeth Gurley Flynn...) The Kominsky book is very good, btw. Even if marred, by a real streak of ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 23 16:56:40 PDT 2001

3307 Racist, homophobic Russians in the Genoa G-8 delegation -- rank: 156

-----Original Message----- From: Lisa Taylor <FFWi at aol.com> To: (It's a secret, the Third Position fascists infiltrated the last list this was on...) Date: Thursday, August 23, 2001 6:09 AM Subject: Red-browns out of the antiglobalisation movement!(Appeal) Dear friends, Here is the document I mentioned ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Aug 23 11:19:52 PDT 2001

3308 Proyect on WWIII -- rank: 156

Proyect's point about conflict as a "solution" to the problem of excess capital destruction is true political economy. That is, it treats what to "economics" is an "exogenous" effect as "endogenous." I don't really know anyone other than the Marxists who do this. Among the number crunching political scientists ...

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Author:	Greg Nowell
Date:	Wed Oct 7 15:02:46 PDT 1998

3309 Your post., Pen-l -- rank: 156

... capitalist. Sometimes the threat comes from elsewhere, in Russia post Stalin labor was entirely destroyed and the Soviet Union functioned because ...

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Author:	Michael Cohen
Date:	Fri Oct 2 16:33:07 PDT 1998

3310 Fidel and Khomeini's Grandson -- rank: 156

... really ill to match the above... Stop! No Hitler vs. Stalin crap here, please. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 22 13:10:36 PDT 2001

3311 the Pierre Degeyter Club; proletarian music -- rank: 156

>Maybe this someone also knows about the so-called Pierre Degeyter >Club (formed sometime in the '30s I guess) for serious American composers >with a leftist urge, such as Aaron Copland? >From the introduction to Songs for Political Action 1926-1953 by Ronald D. Cohen and Dale Samuelson: "At the ...

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Author:	Apsken at aol.com
Date:	Sun Nov 29 10:05:43 PST 1998

3312 PDS on the Berlin Wall - and present walls! -- rank: 156

... after riots erupted in the GDR in the wake of Stalin's death. Barkley Rosser ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Burford" <cburford ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Aug 16 13:22:16 PDT 2001

3313 Materialism of Fools [Was: Where Does Thought Come From?] -- rank: 156

Carrol: > >Susanne Langer, in _Philosophy in a New Key_ (circa 1941 -- she was a > >follower of Whitehead and Cassirer) argued that the question as to the > >origin of languages (at that time regarded as an illegitimate question) > >might be answered, and she suggested that ritual preceded language, with > >language originating then ...

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Author:	LeoCasey at aol.com
Date:	Wed Aug 15 06:37:47 PDT 2001

3314 Capitalism's rate of decay ( Communication) -- rank: 156

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Brad Mayer wrote: > A concept of Late Feudalism might be of some assistance here. But > first: "Lateness" arrives at the point where the scale and scope of > capitalist development generated social and political crises, in the > course of the 'normal' processes of the business cycle, which ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Tue Aug 14 20:31:49 PDT 2001

3315 Vatican -- rank: 156

... the Vatican has representation on all sort of UN bodies? Stalin once asked how many battalions the pope had. Who is ...

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Author:	LeoCasey at aol.com
Date:	Tue Aug 14 10:00:48 PDT 2001