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3496 No Megalomania in Capitalism (was Re: seth & defusingkoreatensions) -- rank: 156

... seen anywhere, but were probably exaggerated (just like the original Stalin USSR growth rates were). Nevertheless, they were very high for ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Thu Jun 1 13:16:12 PDT 2000

3497 Soviet science: Guardian series, 1 -- rank: 156

[from Johnson's Russia List] The Guardian (UK) 24 July 2000 [for personal use only] Town where a Soviet dream turned sour Its scientists were the envy of the world. Now some of the top brains are manual workers. Our three-part series on the decline and rebirth of Russian ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 24 09:37:49 PDT 2000

3498 Stiglitz -- rank: 156

... then every socialist and progressive who disagreed with Lenin and Stalin is by definition anticommunist. Including myself. So in the sense ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Fri Jul 14 06:58:33 PDT 2000

3499 The heart of a Leftist/Last time -- rank: 156

Michael wrote: > Would you say to a Christian that Jesus was responsible for the killing of an > abortion doctor because he did not work out in detail? Details? From Mark, Chapter 9: 42: And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him ...

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Author:	H Curtis Leung
Date:	Thu Jul 13 08:46:28 PDT 2000

3500 Stiglitz -- rank: 156

>>> nathan.newman at yale.edu 07/13/00 02:22PM >>> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Charles Brown wrote: > Stiglitz uses the term "market Bolsheviks" to describe the advisers > who helped bring Russia to its economic knees in the 1990s -- people > who believed fervently in a rigid fundamentalist doctrine and tried ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Jul 13 12:16:05 PDT 2000

3501 Stiglitz -- rank: 156

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Charles Brown wrote: > Stiglitz uses the term "market Bolsheviks" to describe the advisers > who helped bring Russia to its economic knees in the 1990s -- people > who believed fervently in a rigid fundamentalist doctrine and tried > to force an entire society to conform to it, just as ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Thu Jul 13 11:22:42 PDT 2000

3502 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 156

... organize unions, and so forth >*didn't* *matter* *much* because Stalin's regime had the *only* >thing necessary for Uto

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 12 17:14:58 PDT 2000

3503 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 156

... organize unions, and so forth *didn't* *matter* *much* because Stalin's regime had the *only* thing necessary for Utopia: state ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Wed Jul 12 12:01:15 PDT 2000

3504 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 156

>Sure, but it's not "Stalinism" that does it--it's any commitment to >the left, or near it. It wouldn't have helped if my ex-collegaues >had been clearer, had they cared, that I am an anti-Stalinist. There >is an old joke about a cop in a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 12 11:53:13 PDT 2000

3505 anti-communism -- rank: 156

>>> sawicky at epinet.org 07/11/00 07:00PM >>> I'd like to make a distinction between anti-communism as unprincipled and/or unethical behavior, and AC as simply incorrect thinking (i.e., something with which you may disagree, or, if you like, something which is incorrect). AC as bad ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Jul 12 10:32:48 PDT 2000

3506 [lbo-talk] Jimmy Carter on North Korea -- rank: 156

... who was deeply subtle. It is a little like mistaking Stalin's ideas for those of Marx. In fact the two ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Thu Sep 16 10:50:10 PDT 2010

3507 anti-communism -- rank: 156

>THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION May 14, 1986 >Point of View >By Michael D. Yates I don't want to take specific issue with anything in Yates, but I would like to comment. Others who care to may judge whether and how it conflicts. I'd like to make a ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Jul 11 16:00:29 PDT 2000

3508 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 156

... quasi-Trotskyist with, however, strong apologetic leanings towards the system Stalin created. H's views, when he was a Marxist, were ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Sat Jul 8 07:21:55 PDT 2000

3509 The heart of a leftist/Last time -- rank: 156

... to account for whatever number of deaths is attributed to Stalin. Should I have to say that I approve of social ...

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Author:	michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Date:	Fri Jul 7 13:54:43 PDT 2000

3510 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 156

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>In some ways, the thinking of ordinary Americans is much more >>preferable to that of LBO-talkers. They don't pay much attention >>to foreign affairs, for better or worse, unlike LBO-talkers. Phew! >>Things could be a lot worse if they began to think like Brad ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jul 7 11:13:30 PDT 2000