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3991 [lbo-talk] Class enemy prepares to eliminate card-check -- rank: 156

... elections. > > If you want to get a feel for how Stalin's Politburo > must have worked, go > watch an "international" union ...

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Author:	kevin lapalme
Date:	Wed Apr 27 20:28:25 PDT 2005

3992 [lbo-talk] Re: The Suicide of New Left Review -- rank: 156

Turbulo (Jim) wrote: > I'm sadly compelled to agree with you. The problem I have with NLR is > that, > when the Soviet Union was collapsing, many of them thought not only that > the > collapse was inevitable (which it probably was), but that it was a good > thing. > For instance, Tariq Ali ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Apr 27 20:18:50 PDT 2005

3993 [lbo-talk] Class enemy prepares to eliminate card-check -- rank: 156

> On Behalf Of kevin lapalme > There's no such thing as "at will" citizenship? The > government can't summarily fire you - yet, almost - > for your opinions, so an analogy between secret ballot > union elections and secret ballot political elections > is invalid. > > --- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > > I understand ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Wed Apr 27 20:02:26 PDT 2005

3994 [lbo-talk] WP misquote (degs and drugs) -- rank: 156

Chris: > > What a difference an article makes! "Krupneishii" > means "very, superlatively great," not "the greatest," > which would be "samyi krupnii." > It can also mean "one of the greatest" in this context, I believe (my Russian is a bit rusty, to say the least). But nuances aside, it was indeed one of ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Apr 27 15:33:21 PDT 2005

3995 [lbo-talk] I imagine even Jesus having had enough of the chatter by now -- rank: 156

... I'm sure I'd have gone totally Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on all their asses by now. Which would mean that ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Mon Apr 25 10:10:43 PDT 2005

3996 [lbo-talk] China's dark side -- rank: 156

... was in the context of the 50% positive opinion of Stalin in Russia -- I wanted to get an idea of how ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Feb 28 13:48:31 PST 2006

3997 [lbo-talk] Heidegger and Ratzinger....oh freude, freude -- rank: 156

... in Karl Marx. Hey, I guess that must be where Stalin got the whole Gulag idea from! The "they" comes straight ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 24 05:50:37 PDT 2005

3998 [lbo-talk] Does Clinton have to face questions like this? -- rank: 156

... last night. The people I was with* compared him to Stalin -- everybody loved him when he was in power, and then ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Jan 2 05:50:47 PST 2006

3999 [lbo-talk] Speaking of Stillborn Ideas: -- rank: 156

Michael Dawson: > "lumpenproletariat" > > Like its M-L cousin, "labor aristocracy," this concept is all derision and > no emancipation. I hate it. Blame the Bearded Ones for it: http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Lumpenproletariat Actually, it is an analytically useful term which introduces some refinement into the catch-all notion of the working ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Apr 21 13:08:28 PDT 2005

4000 [lbo-talk] Re: gorgeous moscow subway stations -- rank: 156

... trumpeted as a Triumph of Soclism like the skyscrapers, sure. Stalin only took the metro once if I remember correctly -- it ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 19 09:41:06 PDT 2005

4001 [lbo-talk] Bulgakov's cult novel glues Russians to TV -- rank: 156

... The devil and his entourage wreaking havoc in dictator Josef Stalin's Moscow of the 1930s; the bet

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Tue Jan 3 15:09:57 PST 2006

4002 [lbo-talk] Bulgakov's cult novel glues Russians to TV -- rank: 156

That is such a greata book.....I guess Hollywood wouldn't have a clue about how to turn it into a movie. Is there any chance they'll syndicate it on U.S. TV? HBO maybe? Joanna uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >The Asian Age >http://www.asianage.com/ > >30 December ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Tue Jan 3 16:02:46 PST 2006

4003 [lbo-talk] Peak Oil or Oil Bubble? -- rank: 156

... as bomb shelters during the war. People lived down there. Stalin moved his command center into one. Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Apr 18 08:37:51 PDT 2005

4004 [lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment -- rank: 156

I remember attending a conference on cooperatives and intentional communities, and there being a delegation from Twin Oaks. Inevitably, the question came up: How can you trade living in a commune for renouncing participation in local, regional, world politics? The answer came back: We find our internal life and the decisions ...

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Author:	amadeus amadeus
Date:	Sat Apr 16 09:36:16 PDT 2005

4005 [lbo-talk] socially irresponsible investment -- rank: 156

On Apr 16, 2005, at 10:24 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> Yes--there are tiny communities in scattered locations representing a >> fraction of a percent of the people who tried this. They are little >> blemishes on an otherwise unbroken record of heartbreak, misery, and >> human waste from the mass delusions of ...

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Author:	John Adams
Date:	Sat Apr 16 07:55:35 PDT 2005