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631 [lbo-talk] RE: Trotsky on Soviet planning -- rank: 439

... to the wholesale slaughter and downright genocide of peasants under Stalin; I don't think we'd argue that peasant genocide ... though the Nazis sterilized one family member and euthanized another.) Stalin could

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jan 9 09:37:13 PST 2005

632 Hitchens on Amis -- rank: 439

... left - including his closest friend - of overlooking the crimes of Stalin's Russia. In an open letter, that friend Christopher Hitchens ...

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Author:	Liza Featherstone
Date:	Fri Sep 13 10:59:16 PDT 2002

633 [lbo-talk] Chip Berlet in the news -- rank: 439

... which apparently troubled Himmler. --- And I can see, as how Stalin's politburo had at least one person of Jewish origin ... Nazi propaganda as "truth". --- Kaganovich was the biggest Jewish figure. Stalin enjoyed taking the piss out of Ribbentrop by making him ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat May 7 06:10:44 PDT 2005

634 Noam Chomksy on Kosovo (FWD) -- rank: 439

>Dear NM: > >Your post is mostly incoherent and obnoxious, hence not worth >much of my time; only just a little. By contrast, Ken is a model >of decorum and reason. >From the outright liar who frames people with an opposing viewpoint as "lunatics" and then denies it in the same ...

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Author:	NM
Date:	Tue Mar 30 12:02:21 PST 1999

635 [lbo-talk] Genocide, Holocaust -- rank: 439

... com> wrote: > --- > I hate to point this out, but if Stalin had not force-industrialized the > USSR, the Nazis would have ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Jun 6 08:24:53 PDT 2003

636 [lbo-talk] Re: theism, atheism and dont give a fuckism -- rank: 439

... you misplace how Russians think about the Soviet Union and Stalin to please your own political interests. I think many on ... the issue of context is lost. The Soviet Union and Stalin is thought about in Russia because of the important need ... of being to assess the present. The Soviet Union and Stalin are not thought of in terms of politics or any ...

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Author:	Peter Lavelle
Date:	Wed Jun 1 15:25:58 PDT 2005

637 Kennan on W -- rank: 439

[via Johnson's Russia List] The New Yorker October 14 and 21, 2002 THE BIG IDEA A DOCTRINE PASSES by Jane Mayer For more than fifty years, the security of the world has been kept in fragile balance by an elegant idea, shaped in large part by a man who ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 10 08:56:52 PDT 2002

638 A Pig Returns to the Farm, Thumbing His Snout at Orwell -- rank: 439

... after December 1941, the USA as well. The rehabilitation of Stalin and the Soviet Union was not so much a return ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Nov 27 15:04:41 PST 2002

639 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy: Deja Vu -- rank: 439

>[lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy >Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com, Sun Feb 29 21:58:07 PST 2004 > >Brad DeLong writes >>..."De mortuus (sic) nil nisi bonum" applies as little to Paul >>Sweezy as it does to Richard Nixon or Joe McCarthy or Paul De Man. > >When Nixon died ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Mar 1 03:14:32 PST 2004

640 [lbo-talk] Anti-communism -- rank: 439

Thomas Seay wrote: > > However, my question is ... even if we take into account > that there is never going to be a utopia, did the SU > measure up to even modest expectations as to what a > socialist state should be? And that is a utopian question if I ever saw one. Of ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon May 23 10:22:31 PDT 2005

641 [Fwd: Ceremonies of Innocence, or, a Secret Affinity with theLynchers] -- rank: 439

... You're saying that a >>A-Bomb in hands of Stalin's USSR is a bad thing and I think the ... That's pretty clear to me by now. > > >Brad DeLong > Stalin's possession of A-bombs was, no doubt, better than any kind of A-Bombs monopoly, althought Stalin's monopoly of A-Bombs could be even worse than ... their bombs, like the USA. I'm not certain that Stalin is the #2 of this century. The Great Famine of ... the Soviets governments (30 million vs. 15-20 millions), so Stalin would be in third place. I don't know the ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Sat Dec 11 08:07:58 PST 1999

642 Leninism in 2003 (was: Re: Revolutionary Defeatism -- rank: 439

Alan Jacobson wrote: > >When I get home, I'll check with my Dictionary of Marxist Thought to >>see what it says. >> > >Doug > >From Dictionary of Marxist Thought, edit. Thomas Bottomore, etc 1991 >edition, p. 311: > >Leninism >(excerpt) Here's the full entry. It's scanned, so apologies for any stray errors ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 27 10:43:58 PST 2003

643 The heart of a leftist -- rank: 439

... Brad curiously obsessed with by-now-non-existent worshippers of Stalin. Maybe if Brad can forget ghosts of Stalinism long enough ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jul 6 22:12:05 PDT 2000

644 [lbo-talk] Cultural Change? ( Marxist democracy) -- rank: 439

I just wrote: Having a high opinion of Stalin tends to correlate with lack of education, poverty, location (i ... him) and, most importantly, AGE. I add: Also, attitudes toward Stalin (and the USSR in general) vary widely in FSU depending ... not exactly rah-rah USSR either, since, for those regions, Stalin meant invasion, famine and repression. (Eastern Ukrainians, who are more ... s a big place with huge regional differences. In Georgia, Stalin is a symbol of national greatnes

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu May 6 06:09:14 PDT 2004

645 [lbo-talk] How Mr Pugliese Should Learn to Bowl a Googlie Without Forced Emigration to India or the West Indies. Part 1 Agriculture in the USSR. -- rank: 439

The recent strands on how poverty stricken the USSR was, and hwo Stlain had so destoyed its agricuature & well being, reminded me of a fiarly long-winded book on Lysneko & Modern day gene Thoeries - that I had done some 15 years ago. I am certian none would wish to wade thru ...

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Author:	Hari Kumar
Date:	Sun Feb 15 07:30:22 PST 2004