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526 ... talk] Lenin on FRD Drive (Was Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow) -- rank: 496

On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:04 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Lenin on FDR Drive: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789265/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789117/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789241/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789129/ > > My guide was the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 06:04:26 PDT 2007

527 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims -- rank: 496

Ever seen the Forward Building, located in Manhattan on the corner of East Broadway and Essex? It's where the Forverts, now the Jewish Daily Forward, used to be published. There's a relief of Marx on the facade. On 8/7/07, Jim Straub <rustbeltjacobin at gmail.com> wrote: > In ...

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Author:	Brad Kerr
Date:	Wed Aug 8 05:22:44 PDT 2007

528 ... talk] Lenin on FRD Drive (Was Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow) -- rank: 496

Lenin on FDR Drive: http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789265/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789117/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789241/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/69514110@N00/1047789129/ My guide was the inestimable Alex Gourevitch

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Aug 8 01:04:45 PDT 2007

529 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims -- rank: 496

In Vegas, Ceasar's Palace I think, there's a fancy russian-themed vodka bar, forget its name, but in front of it it has a big statue of lenin decapitated with the head lying at its feet. My anarchist union organizin buddies, and our out of town anarchist guests, would ...

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Author:	Jim Straub
Date:	Tue Aug 7 16:04:24 PDT 2007

530 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow -- rank: 496

On Aug 7, 2007, at 4:35 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Here's one I know of: > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Lenin-east_village.jpg > > It's at 250 East Houston Street, if you feel the need to see such a > spectacle for yourself. Oh yeah, that one. Forgot ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 13:53:01 PDT 2007

531 [lbo-talk] Cross in memory of Stalin repression victims placed in Moscow -- rank: 496

--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > I've seen the statue in Manhattan, and the blue > plaque on his digs in London > There are so many plaques in Russia saying "Lenin did so and so here for 2 hours once in 1901" that there are jokes about how ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Aug 7 13:10:32 PDT 2007

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

. . . A socialist perspective cannot defend "communist" terror if its ethical critique of liberal capitalism is to remain coherent. The domination of humans by humans must be condemned if enacted under capitalism or state communism, regardless of increases in heavy industry or even increased average life-spans. Jacob Segal >> Indubitably. The ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:15:49 PDT 1999

533 [lbo-talk] Marinero En Tierra: Tributo A Neruda -- rank: 496

... role in the assasination of Trotsky. And being awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. http://eserver.org/clogic/2002/dawes.html Realism ... s a part of a poem on the death of Stalin in 1953 by the Chilean > Communist poet Pablo Neruda. (It ... men! That is the Stalinist law! -We must learn from Stalin his sincere intensity his concrete clarity ...Stalin is the moon, the maturity of man and the peoples ... only the growth of light, bread, fire and hope in Stalin's invincible time! ...In recent years the dove, Peace, the ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Oct 16 23:38:59 PDT 2003

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

> A socialist perspective cannot defend "communist" terror if > its ethical > critique of liberal capitalism is to remain coherent. The > domination of > humans by humans must be condemned if enacted under > capitalism or state > communism, regardless of increases in heavy industry or even increased > average life-spans. Excellent! Very well put ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Thu Jun 10 06:55:19 PDT 1999

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

\ The central theme >of Marxian socialism is that people should be treated as ends in >themselves, and not in the phony atomistic sense of Kantian liberalism, but >ends in themselves as species-beings developing themselves. Jacob, such ethical socialism is the central theme of misty pre Marxian revolutionary thought. Marxian ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Thu Jun 10 07:11:21 PDT 1999

536 [lbo-talk] TV series on Stalin divides Russian audience -- rank: 496

BTW, I think this is from the "The War is Over" speech. Note thick Georgian accent if you can pick it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRw-ORawG8Q Lyubo, bratsy, lyubo, lyubo, bratsy, zhit! ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ËÞÁÎ, ËÞÁÎ, ÁÐÀÒÖÛ, ÆÈÒÜ! ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Apr 1 11:54:06 PDT 2007

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

Fundamental point, Rakesh . . . Note my added emphasis to Luxembourg, of whom I've always thought highly: You said: Jacob, such ethical socialism is the central theme of misty pre Marxian revolutionary thought. Marxian socialism has an objective foundation. As Rosa Luxemburg put it: "According to Marx, the rebellion of the workers ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Thu Jun 10 11:15:01 PDT 1999

538 [lbo-talk] Stalin.... -- rank: 496

>From: Mike Ballard <swillsqueal at yahoo.com.au> > >tank resurrected. Check it out: Amateur historians in Estonia find T-34 in >a swamp , pull it out...and it runs! Very interesting. Here are two other living relics of WWII in the news: <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/16/world ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Sat Sep 16 06:49:39 PDT 2006

539 [lbo-talk] Stalin.... -- rank: 496

tank resurrected. Check it out: Amateur historians in Estonia find T-34 in a swamp , pull it out...and it runs! http://www.mil.hiiumaa.ee/2000_09_14_kurtna_T-34-36/ http://www.diving.ee/articles/art035.html Thanks to old list member Grant Lee for this. Regards, Mike ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Sat Sep 16 02:47:26 PDT 2006

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

At 09:15 AM 6/10/99 -0700, Max Sawicky wrote: >The economic analog of this point could be put as follows: >under capitalism the surplus is devoted to investment and >the consumption of rentiers. Under the systems of PRC >and USSR, the surplus was/is devoted to investment and >consumption ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Jun 10 08:32:26 PDT 1999