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3946 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 156

> > Jerry Monaco wrote: > > > > I have > > read nothing written by Judith Butler or Derrida or Zizek or Foucault > > that could not be written in the prose style of Edmund Wilson or > > Bertrand Russell, or for that matter the Simone de Beauvoir of "The > > Second Sex." But writing such things in a ...

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Author:	boddi satva
Date:	Thu Dec 7 10:24:23 PST 2006

3947 [lbo-talk] Prose Style, was Time to Get Religion -- rank: 156

... Stalinist, people who have publicly decried the vast majority of Stalin's policies are suddenly defensive, lest they be thought of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Dec 7 11:09:53 PST 2006

3948 [lbo-talk] Ticktin on Soviet "Planning" -- rank: 156

What Hillel didn't seem to realize, and I argued this point with him fruitlessly for years, is that his point is _exactly_ same point made by Mises and Hayek, that roughly attempts at centralized planning of the whole economy will fail because of massive information distortion and dysfunctionmal motivational incentives ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Dec 17 11:13:24 PST 2006

3949 [lbo-talk] Ticktin on Soviet "Planning" -- rank: 156

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:13:24 -0800 (PST) andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> writes: > > What Hillel didn't seem to realize, and I argued this > point with him fruitlessly for years, is that his > point is _exactly_ same point made by Mises and Hayek, > that roughly attempts ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Dec 17 14:05:01 PST 2006

3950 [lbo-talk] Ticktin was right -- rank: 156

... part of the masses. (We're also ahistorically amalgamating the Stalin era and the Brezhnev era a bit here.) You are ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Dec 17 15:53:46 PST 2006

3951 [lbo-talk] Ticktin was right -- rank: 156

... Uprisings in the USSR: Protest and Rebellion in the Post-Stalin Years (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2002). This looks good ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Dec 17 16:05:38 PST 2006

3952 [lbo-talk] Ticktin on Soviet "Planning" -- rank: 156

We've been here. I don't want to get into this debate again, so I'll just say rather dogmatically: I think Hayek and Mises overstate their case,but they identify real and deep problems with planning. We know from experience that some things can be effectively planned -- health care ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Dec 17 16:45:30 PST 2006

3953 [lbo-talk] Top 20 LPs of 2006 -- rank: 156

[Remember that podcast/online 'radio' show I do? yeah. - B.] -------------------------- RADIO SCHIZO 43: TOP 20 LPs of 2006! 1 song from each LP! -- To listen: http://www.myspace.com/radio_schizo (go to "Blog" section there) -- iTunes podcast subscription URL (iTunes/Advanced/Subscribe to podcast): http://feeds.feedburner.com/radioschizo ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Wed Dec 20 10:22:52 PST 2006

3954 [lbo-talk] How to Deconstruct Almost Anything -- rank: 156

... How wrong I was! > Doug <<<<<>>>>> it's the alternative to stalin bashing (which for those of you who have not marked ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Dec 21 16:06:22 PST 2006

3955 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

... Bologna ruled by the PCI. The GDR, where paintings of Stalin were still on housing complexes was horrid. Czechoslovakian were beaten ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sat Dec 23 19:59:54 PST 2006

3956 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

... Thus, Aericans should not have criticized Pol Pol killing field, Stalin's gulag, the excesses of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, etc ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Dec 26 20:10:55 PST 2006

3957 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

... Thus, >Aericans should not have criticized Pol Pol killing >field, Stalin's gulag, the excesses of the Chinese >Cultural Revolution, etc ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Tue Dec 26 20:50:58 PST 2006

3958 [lbo-talk] Bored? How about Radio Schizo's "Best of 2006" year-end soundtrack? -- rank: 156

... Blood Bled Dry 16. PESD - Body Bags 17. HERO DISHONEST - Stalin vs. Hank Hardy 18. SKITSYSTEM - Vald 19. MASSMORD - Same Old ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Thu Dec 28 04:15:28 PST 2006

3959 [lbo-talk] Re: Fidel -- rank: 156

... took each example you gave -- Pol Pot, the Nazi genocide, Stalin's gulag, the Cultural Revolution -- and in each historical context ...

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Author:	Jerry Monaco
Date:	Thu Dec 28 11:10:34 PST 2006

3960 [lbo-talk] Raimondo on the Litvinenko poisoning, Part Four -- rank: 156

Sometimes I think Raimondo is the only pundit in the Angloverse with a brain. The stuff about the egg on the face of the media is sooooo true. I have never seen a more shameful performance by them. antiwar.com Did the Russian Mafia Kill Alexander Litvinenko? Looks like it by ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Dec 28 12:34:31 PST 2006