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3436 [lbo-talk] hey Zizek fans -- rank: 156

... A left that can flourish with lots worse than Zizek & Stalin in in it is a pretty feeble left. The U ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon May 3 20:34:05 PDT 2010

3437 [lbo-talk] The Ideology Problem -- rank: 156

... movements. The richness of Soviet thought in the 1920s (until Stalin closed it down) consisted in a wonderful scramble to find ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 4 06:14:28 PDT 2010

3438 Confusion -- rank: 156

... the transition to market economy, which killed >as people as Stalin did (with much worse economic results...). And >what about Castro ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Mon May 22 21:03:04 PDT 2000

3439 RES: Fwd: US Blamed for 2000 Korean Student Deaths in 1980 -- rank: 156

... the transition to market economy, which killed as people as Stalin did (with much worse economic results...). And what about Castro ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Mon May 22 18:31:59 PDT 2000

3440 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 156

Wojtek: It is unlikely that a mere economic downturn will dissolve social order and social control by the elite - far more than that is needed. Somebody: But this is the old catch 22 of socialist revolutions, isn't it? On the one hand, you need war, a breakdown of the social ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Tue May 18 14:27:10 PDT 2010

3441 [lbo-talk] recessions: better for right than left -- rank: 156

[WS:] You are absolutely right on that, but the destruction of the old order has certain advantages as well. One is the ability to "borrow" organizational and technological solutions developed elsewhere without being constrained by property rights - this idea was floated by Trotsky and later by Gerschenkron (in his essay ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Tue May 18 18:14:33 PDT 2010

3442 [lbo-talk] how did progressives become pwogs? how did liberalsbecomepwogs? -- rank: 156

shag carpet bomb wrote: > > At 11:14 PM 5/20/2010, Carrol Cox wrote: > >I like shag's "heavy users of Marx," and I suspect that will contiue to > >be an accurate description of many/most withing any anticapitalist > >movement, but it need not be a ticket of admission. And the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue May 25 08:15:18 PDT 2010

3443 [lbo-talk] Krugman :There Will Be Blood -- rank: 156

There Will Be Blood By PAUL KRUGMAN November 22, 2010 One of our parties has made it clear that it has no interest in making America governable, unless it s doing the governing. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/opinion/22krugman.html (Mark: ) Why is our nation in much worse ...

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Author:	Mark Wain
Date:	Tue Nov 23 03:15:33 PST 2010

3444 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 156

... we are having about who is worse--Harry Truman or Stalin--adds almost new information. I propose that those who are ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Tue May 19 08:05:46 PDT 1998

3445 Cockburns anti-PLC -- rank: 156

> > > No I am not using a DSM4 type check list of fascism. I do not think such > operational diagnostic schema get to the inner processes that shape > phenomena. They are a check list of epiphenomena and deeply empricist in > philosophical nature. > > I regard fascism as an abuse of bourgeois democratic ...

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Author:	brad.hatch
Date:	Thu May 11 18:51:38 PDT 2000

3446 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 156

... state is equivalent to slavery and communism (i.e., the Stalin terror) and that the weaker or less lucky should be ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Sat May 6 13:48:57 PDT 2000

3447 [lbo-talk] Enthusiasm -- rank: 156

... the great populist Huey Long, not from the sympathizers with Stalin. Shane Mage The communist creed: From each according to his ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Oct 30 09:38:40 PDT 2010

3448 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea -- rank: 156

At 11:37 AM 5/2/00 -0400, Charles wrote: >CB: I sort of agree with you , Wojtek. Although I must say, somehow this class of people convinced millions of ordinary American workers to do all the killing for them. These mass murders in the "Third World" , the colonies, were carried ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Tue May 2 08:55:18 PDT 2000

3449 populism vs. Marxism (was RE: Frank Sinatra) -- rank: 156

... make it up to the 10-20 Suharto range. > >Mao, Stalin, and Hitler are in the 30-60 Suharto range. > > >Charles ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Tue May 19 08:16:12 PDT 1998

3450 Chomsky on Madison -- rank: 156

CB: As Herbert Aptheker points out "factions" are political parties, and the Founding Fathers were against a multiparty system. Ironic , since the U.S. makes mulitiple parties an acid test of democracy when it wants to make war on some country. Aptheker is a better historian on slave revolts, than as ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Mar 31 14:22:18 PST 2000