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3391 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 156

The only thing I am accepting is the fact that Jews in Russia do not consider themselves to be Russians, nor do Russians consider Russian Jews to be Russians. You may not like it, but that's the way it is. I am not making up that "Jew" is a separate ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jan 31 15:54:18 PST 2010

3392 [lbo-talk] Scope and Limits of Theory: Provisional Draft (wasBlackBloc, G20, Chicago, etc)] -- rank: 156

... Marxists, let alone "orthodox Marixsts." Kautsky and Lenin created Marxism; Stalin created Leninism. The resultant artifical construts have subsequently been twisted ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:36:23 PDT 2010

3393 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

More than a bit hesitantly, given the long history of the Soviet-German treaty of 1939 turning otherwise gentle western lefties into an incoherent ranting and raging lynchmob, maybe I can add a few useful points to this discussion: 1. The Soviet strategic position in August 1939. In August 1939 the ...

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Author:	John Mage
Date:	Sat Nov 4 10:16:53 PST 2000

3394 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

I'm not gonna go on about this, Charles, but it seems to me the Germans had one serious shot at winning in the East, and that was all to do with the early winter of '41. Mebbe if they hadn't messed about with those recalcitrant Yugoslavs at the outset ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Fri Nov 3 21:29:43 PST 2000

3395 [lbo-talk] Scope and Limits of Theory: Provisional Draft (was BlackBloc, G20, Chicago, etc)] -- rank: 156

The spectre that looms over all "Marxist" political theory/thought is, of course, WITDBD, and WITBD has been seen almost wholly in the light of one fateful sentence: "There can be no Revolutionary Party withut a Revolutionary Theory." All varieties of "Leniniism" derive from treating this ne sentence as Scripture. Though ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Jul 6 10:51:31 PDT 2010

3396 [lbo-talk] Necessity & Revolution was Marxology -- rank: 156

... is what is wrong with "Leninism" as created by Trotsky/Stalin for their own political purposes. I think it is also ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Jul 16 07:42:04 PDT 2010

3397 [lbo-talk] Theories of surplus value -- rank: 156

Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > > >[clip[ In other words, revolutionary > > practice does not need revolutionary theory. Let's clarify a bit. This comes in a much wider context, in which "Theory" is narrowly circumscribed as only a special sub-section of thought ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Jul 18 15:32:22 PDT 2010

3398 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

>>> Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk 11/02/00 07:39PM >>> In message <sa01796e.093 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >CB: "Collaboration" is not an accurate term for relations between states. The SU >was under no obligation to make ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:36:04 PST 2000

3399 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

... com A book by Wolfgang Leonhard ("The Betrayal")on the Stalin-Hitler pact(or Molotov-Ribbentrof?) published back in the 80 ...

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Author:	debsian at pacbell.net
Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:33:30 PST 2000

3400 the rabbinical view of LesserEvilism -- rank: 156

At 12:04 PM 11/3/00 +1100, Rob wrote: >The Red Army had not been that far off for all the 63 bloody days it took >the Germans to crush the uprising. They apparently set up camp on the When the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started (April 1943), the Red Army ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Nov 3 09:08:42 PST 2000

3401 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 156

Subject: [Pen-l] Our Enemies Have Different Goals, The stupidity of calling the Enemy Ignorant was What is it? There is a "quotation" from Lenin that I can't confirm -- but he should have said it if he didn't: "The three revolutionary virtues are One Patience Two Patience and Three ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:32:55 PDT 2010

3402 [lbo-talk] Jews and the CP (Was: Jobless Workers Look to Shift Elections) -- rank: 156

roughly parallel to the three means of attaining enlightenment: attention, attention, attention. I met Dorothy at a wedding reception in L.A. in the seventies. She seemed a decent and quite cheerful woman. I don't know about cultivating irony. It always struck me that "irony" is a mood for those ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Fri Jul 30 11:51:27 PDT 2010

3403 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

... argument that the pact 'bought time' is simply wrong. Firstly, Stalin didn't use the time but left t

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Nov 2 16:39:40 PST 2000

3404 [lbo-talk] Weird Cultural Mutants -- rank: 156

... released an album entirely of covers of songs by the Stalin-era >singer Vadim Kozin: I'm confused by the subject ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Wed Mar 3 14:03:02 PST 2010

3405 Allies against fascism? -- rank: 156

... by the >Soviets at the time! Until D-Day, all Stalin and Molotov could talk about >with Churchill and Roosvelt was ...

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Author:	brettk at unicacorp.com
Date:	Thu Nov 2 09:16:27 PST 2000