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

On Jan 12, 2005, at 10:15 AM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I > say that it is essential to a proper appraisal of the > Stalinist system, which is no longer really an object > to be defended, but merely assessed. I don't dismiss > the positive aspects of the Soviet experience. But > apart ...

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Author:	martin
Date:	Wed Jan 12 12:20:53 PST 2005

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

A system that kills people because it believes them as a class, without evidence, or indeed with it, to oppose it ideologically, is vile and unworthy of defense. That's not hard. Of course we know apart from the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class" that murdering "enemies of the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Jan 12 13:38:55 PST 2005

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

On Jan 12, 2005, at 1:38 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote: > Otherwise, you're an enemy of the human race. And an > apologist for such conduct deserves no respect or > consideration. I just asked you what conclusion you drew from your observation. It would seem (given the cursory overview of the ...

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Author:	martin
Date:	Wed Jan 12 16:43:07 PST 2005

424 [lbo-talk] Stalin and Lenins reunite in India -- rank: 496

On 11/3/05, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4374826.stm > > Wojtek Thanks for unearthing this gem, Wojtek. I was aware of Kerala's love for Russian names, but it is good to know that the Pushkins and the ...

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Author:	Sujeet Bhatt
Date:	Thu Nov 3 09:37:53 PST 2005

425 [lbo-talk] Stalin and Lenins reunite in India -- rank: 496

I know a woman named Stalina. --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4374826.stm > > Wojtek > > > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Nov 3 08:27:21 PST 2005

426 [lbo-talk] Stalin and Lenins reunite in India -- rank: 496

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4374826.stm Wojtek

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Nov 3 07:10:02 PST 2005

427 [lbo-talk] Stalin and Germany -- rank: 496

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1710095,00.html

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Author:	John Norem
Date:	Sun Jul 31 14:09:09 PDT 2005

428 [lbo-talk] Re:oy! first stalin and hitler, now the sla... -- rank: 496

> > >"...The SLA was the hapless crew of self-styled revolutionaries that made >headlines, if little sense, in the mid '70s." > was there a particular trade or grad school which "styled" revolutionaries, so they wouldn't have to be "self-styled"?.. as i recall, this was the most common expression used ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Tue May 24 17:29:20 PDT 2005

429 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 496

Chris D: >If by "Stalins" you mean mass-murderers with personality cults,< would GW Bush count? among GOPsters, theres's a big personality cult around him, no? JD -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20050620/834b3a96/attachment.htm>

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Author:	Jim Devine
Date:	Mon Jun 20 08:33:00 PDT 2005

430 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 496

On 6/20/05, Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch at gmail.com> wrote: >Or that one reason the population was lower And I should note that when I said the population was lower between the 1962 census and the Vietnamese's 1980 demographic survey, I don't mean the actual population was lower ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Mon Jun 20 10:11:22 PDT 2005

431 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 496

With a caveat about making parallels across cultural lines, the situation will be comparable when a US politician dies and there is a stampede at the funeral to see the Dead God, killing hundreds. As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not so much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jun 21 11:32:54 PDT 2005

432 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 496

Chris Doss wrote: > As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not so > much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth to > Stalins as that Stalins gave birth to authoritarian > socialisms. That might be right. -- Luke

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Author:	Luke Weiger
Date:	Tue Jun 21 12:07:45 PDT 2005

433 [lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin -- rank: 496

Chris Doss wrote: "As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not so much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth to Stalins as that Stalins gave birth to authoritarian socialisms." I'd add Rudolf Rocker's quote: "Dictatorship is no child of the labour movement, but a regrettable inheritance from the ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Tue Jun 21 12:23:53 PDT 2005

434 [lbo-talk] Stalin lives by Roy Medvedev -- rank: 496

Privetik Peter, Are you sure we're talking about the same article? I mean this one: http://www.aif.ru/online/aif/1277/11_01 (PS Zoya's kid is adorable.) --- Peter Lavelle <untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com> wrote: > Chris, > > You don't have to translate anything - the text is > already ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed May 4 21:01:19 PDT 2005

435 [lbo-talk] Stalin lives by Roy Medvedev -- rank: 496

Chris, You don't have to translate anything - the text is already in English. What are you up to? --- Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> wrote: > Chris D wrote: > > Medvedev has a short piece in a recent issue of > Argumenty i Fakty (on the war, not surprisingly > given > the time ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Wed May 4 14:35:04 PDT 2005