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406 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 496

Brett Knowlton wrote: > My point is: we can judge a system based on the character of its > institutions. Do they foster libertarian socialist values like democratic > self-management, egalitarianism, solidarity and diversity? These are the > values I want a society to encourage and promote - others may differ as to > what they ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Mon Jun 14 12:39:15 PDT 1999

407 [lbo-talk] Russia and (Average?) American Leftists (was Stalin, democrat) -- rank: 496

> I suspect that American leftists have lost interest > in Russia. Not all of us . . . If it weren't for Chris and Peter > here, there > probably would be a LBO-talk thread on Russia today > at most once a > year or maybe none at all in some years ( Ahem . . . __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Dec 5 19:35:58 PST 2005

408 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

Carrol Cox wrote: >> Try saying a kind word about Pootey-Poot to your average American >> leftist and they'll look at you like you're a monster. > >"Average American Leftist"????? I've never met one. This is sillier than >"average post-modernist" or "average baseball fan." ^^^^ CB; How about the modal ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Dec 6 06:24:39 PST 2005

409 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Try saying a kind word about Pootey-Poot to your > average American > leftist and they'll look at you like you're a > monster. > That's largely the result of poor knowledge coupled with ideological predisposition. Similarly, people who are ideologically predisposed to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Dec 6 08:45:20 PST 2005

410 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

Chris Doss : -clip- US'rs who have an opinion are usually one of two types. There are the people who idealized the USSR and/or sympathized with Gorbachev, and therefore are ideological predisposed against Russia for having dashed their dreams (despite the fact that Gorby laud Putin as if he were ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:32:24 PST 2005

411 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

That's kind of like asking if the US is better or worse than it was in the 1960s. It depends on your criteria, which people you're talking about, what section of the country you're talking about, etc. The process isn't nearly over yet, either. --- Charles Brown <cbrown ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:42:26 PST 2005

412 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

Chris: The process isn't nearly over yet, either. ^^^^ CB: Socialism is still collapsing there ?

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Dec 6 09:56:36 PST 2005

413 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

I meant in the sense that it's too early to tell whether the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet system (which are different things BTW) will be Judged by History to be good or bad. Mostly this depends on whether or not the Kremlin pulls off its project to ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Dec 6 10:15:24 PST 2005

414 [lbo-talk] Stalin, democrat -- rank: 496

Chris: I meant in the sense that it's too early to tell whether the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet system (which are different things BTW) will be Judged by History to be good or bad. Mostly this depends on whether or not the Kremlin pulls off its project ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Dec 6 10:41:42 PST 2005

415 [lbo-talk] The Sun Online - News: Stalin's mutant ape army -- rank: 496

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005580679,00.html -- Michael Pugliese

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Tue Dec 20 10:53:20 PST 2005

416 [lbo-talk] For some people . . . -- rank: 496

... Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > Chris Doss wrote: > > >Stalin may not have said it, but I just bought a > >collection of Stalin-era jokes and anecdotes. I can > >translate some of them ... to the Tyrant!" He is promptly arrested and taken to Stalin and Beria. Beria looks at him suspiciously and asks, "What ... were you talking about?" The man replies: "Hitler, of course." Stalin turns to Beria: "And what tyrant were YOU thinking of ... 2. It's a meeting of the Politburo. Somebody sneezes. Stalin: "Who did that?!?!?" Silence. Nervous fidgeting among those gathered. BANG ... maintaining order in the hall. Some bodies get dragged off. Stalin: "Alright, now, who sneezed?!?!?" More

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Oct 30 03:36:31 PST 2005

417 Kazan/HUAC -- rank: 496

... question of Yugoslavia. Of course, Tito resisted and split with Stalin. I certainly grant that Tito was no great democrat with ...

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Author:	J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Date:	Mon Mar 29 08:38:43 PST 1999

418 [lbo-talk] Re: stalin worship -- rank: 496

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >he was credited (mistakenly) with having Won The >War (by the people who did win the war!) Huh? I thought the Nazi's took 75% of their casualties in the USSR. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jan 11 09:33:05 PST 2005

419 [lbo-talk] Stalin worship, kulaks, Shanin's analysis -- rank: 496

> Well yeah, but the definition of "kulak" was quite > expansive (i.e. you are a kulak if you own a cow) and > a lot of people got denounced because their neighbors > didn't like them. Some years ago a friend cited this article when I asked about kulaks, and I ...

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Author:	RE
Date:	Tue Jan 11 10:30:09 PST 2005

420 [lbo-talk] Stalin worship, kulaks, Shanin's analysis -- rank: 496

--- RE <earnest at tallynet.com> wrote: > > Some years ago a friend cited this article when I > asked about kulaks, and I > wonder if it's still considered adequate to the > question. Well I am about 10,000,000 versts from being an expert on the subject, but I do have ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jan 12 09:10:17 PST 2005