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3361 Albanians & the Evil Empire (was RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding...) -- rank: 156

... during the World War 2), splits in the Communist Camp (Stalin vs. Tito vs. Hoxha), harsh repression at the founding moment ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Oct 8 14:47:10 PDT 2000

3362 libertarian socialism -- rank: 156

... you claim that any government ends us up with the Stalin terror or a Brezhnevite dictatorship, that is obviously false. We ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Tue Oct 3 14:24:56 PDT 2000

3363 James Farrell and James Cain (was Re: Michael Moore Responds) -- rank: 156

Louis Proyect writes: << I have no idea what you mean by "right wing." A right wing in the bourgeois sense? Or right wing in the Marxist sense, as Bukharin's Marxism in the 1920s. Furthermore, it is anti-Marxist to extrapolate Schachtman's cold-war politics from the theories he held ...

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Author:	Dhlazare at aol.com
Date:	Sun May 31 17:44:55 PDT 1998

3364 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 156

... are irrelevant." I'm glad you were't prosecuting at Stalin's trials. They might have been oppressive. "And while I ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Nov 27 15:03:52 PST 2000

3365 [lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism oldand new -- rank: 156

... capitalism never had feared Bernstein and his ilk more than Stalin and Mao. In fact it would have welcomed Bernsteinian or ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Dec 10 05:52:45 PST 2010

3366 Pogroms in Palestine -- rank: 156

Pogroms in Palestine An Israeli anarchist on Jewish resistance to the Israeli state Media coverage of the murderous pogroms unleashed by the Israeli state against Palestinians leaves out some of the story. The so-called 'peace process' like that of Northern Ireland is based on institutionalising sectarianism rather than overcoming it ...

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Author:	Joe Black
Date:	Fri Nov 24 05:12:06 PST 2000

3367 sanctions -- rank: 156

[apologies for the length, but this isn't available on the web, and it's important: "economic sanctions may well have been a necessary cause of the deaths of more people in Iraq than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction throughout history"] Foreign Affairs - May ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 22 11:01:26 PST 2000

3368 [lbo-talk] rambling note Re: Canto XLV Was An Inside Job -- rank: 156

Many of *The* *Cantos* elite of poets, sculptors, painters, philosophers and politicians (the 'insiders,' in this case) worked primarily in the fifteenth century, before an age when art in Pound s opinion became merely the production of consumable objects. The point of division, about the middle of the sixteenth century, is ...

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Author:	pandora akkiraz
Date:	Mon Dec 27 14:54:22 PST 2010

3369 [lbo-talk] 36% of Americans have a positive image of socialism -- rank: 156

... underestimate how young people's conception of "socialism" is less Stalin's gulag and more the European welfare state. On Thu ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Thu Feb 4 14:47:52 PST 2010

3370 [lbo-talk] demotic cuisine -- rank: 156

[Note that I acknowledged I had misunderstood Dennis -- so his post that I replied to is not relevant here, for Chuck picks up from myinterpretation of it. The debate then is not over Dennis's actual argument but voer my rejection of what I supposed was his argument.] Chuck Grimes ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Feb 12 20:00:52 PST 2010

3371 [lbo-talk] Waht Would Have to Happen First -- rank: 156

... mass movements sometimes go off the rails. The French Terror, Stalin, ... What must such a movement do to be credible? How ...

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Author:	Sandy Harris
Date:	Sat Feb 13 23:00:21 PST 2010

3372 [lbo-talk] The zen of marx (was clarification) -- rank: 156

... who takes action or supports others in taking action. Besides, Stalin has been dead for over 55 years & to be still ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Feb 15 11:43:53 PST 2010

3373 [lbo-talk] Cockburn cut back at Nation -- rank: 156

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > This article on Perry Anderson http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200603/marxist . >  I can't say that Cockburn and Hitchens are on the same terrain as writers > (or have the same intellectual breadth).  (I ...

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Author:	Mike Beggs
Date:	Sun Feb 21 19:51:56 PST 2010

3374 [lbo-talk] Cockburn cut back at Nation -- rank: 156

E.P. Thompson initially made the accusation in his polemic against Althusser. (If you're interested in this, look at Dennis Dworkin's Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain, although it makes no attempt to actually represent Althusser.) Perry Anderson wrote the defenses for the productivity of Althusser in response to Thompson ...

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Author:	wrobert at uci.edu
Date:	Sun Feb 21 20:05:33 PST 2010

3375 [lbo-talk] Cockburn cut back at Nation -- rank: 156

Since we're on this topic: I'm reading Gregory Elliott's "Ends in Sight" that has an extensive section on Anderson's and Thompson's exchanges. So far, recommended. On Feb 21, 2010, at 11:05 PM, "wrobert at uci.edu" <wrobert at uci.edu> wrote: > E.P. Thompson initially ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Sun Feb 21 20:13:16 PST 2010