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676 [lbo-talk] Beria question -- rank: 405

... to > recast himself as a reformer. As did all of Stalin's > top lieutants. Khrushchev came out on top, despite a ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Sun Feb 20 21:15:31 PST 2005

677 Noam Chomsky -- rank: 405

Brad, Hitchens quotes Chomsky recognizing and fearing that the worst may well be true about Pol Pot as early as 1976 (I believe). >Similarly, Chomsky seemed to me to think it better if people didn't dwell >too much on Pol Pot. Yet others criticize Chomsky for emphasizing Pol Pot's ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Wed Oct 28 22:05:27 PST 1998

678 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 405

... in the 70s about the babies with superpowers? "Take that, Stalin, you big meany!" Maybe Stalin will extrude a pseudopod and squish him. --- Chris Doss: "Wait, I forget, in the West, Stalin = evil. Anybody associated with Stalin was evil too. Stalin lived in a secret Fortress of Evil surrounded by a ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Tue Mar 2 02:15:30 PST 2004

679 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 405

... different if somebody else had come into power apart from Stalin. But above all the USSR was created by the conscious ... a way of minimising the fantastic, and destructive, failure that Stalin and the post 1930 leadership made of it. The old myth that Stalin stood up to Hitler really fails to take into account ...

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Author:	heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Date:	Tue Feb 3 08:27:47 PST 2004

680 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 405

... by Bukharin - would have mitigated the worst features of the Stalin regime, particularly in regards to the accession of the bureaucratic ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Oct 9 17:18:04 PDT 2012

681 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 405

... 48:37 -0400, Chris Doss > <itschris13 at hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > Stalin was highly rational. A lunatic does not work his way ... leader. I think it can be argued that someone like Stalin who managed to raise himself into the ranks of the ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Wed Jul 23 11:12:27 PDT 2003

682 [lbo-talk] Apologetics vs. understanding -- rank: 405

... Mage rather obnoxiously accuses me of being an "apologist for Stalin." Second, he points out that when the Chechens, Cherkess and ... of people in the former Soviet Union are "apologists" for Stalin, according to Shane? Are they all nuts? Or maybe they ... t. The majority of Russian citizens will not say that Stalin was "good"; they will say he was "not that bad ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Feb 5 01:15:27 PST 2004

683 THE WWP: FROM KIM IL SUNG’S BIRTHDAY PARTY TO THE RUSSIAN "RED-BROWN ALLIANCE" -- rank: 405

THE WWP: FROM KIM IL SUNG’S BIRTHDAY PARTY TO THE RUSSIAN "RED-BROWN ALLIANCE" The Orwellian absurdity that is the WWP [Workers World Party] reaches its summit with the group's well-known love for that well-known bastion of human rights and free thought, North Korea. Longtime WWP leader ...

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Author:	Chuck Munson
Date:	Thu Dec 6 09:16:50 PST 2001

684 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 405

In message <35B14D81.B0221355 at netcomuk.co.uk>, Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> writes >The problem with Gorbachev and Aganbegyan is that they are somewhat >tainted witnesses. Yes, of course. The truth was that the socialist economy was booming, but wicked capitalists had inveigled themselves into the Kremlin ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 19 04:05:54 PDT 1998

685 [lbo-talk] Communists and Socialists get together -- rank: 405

>From the NYT, a few days ago. Thought this might be of interest to those who keep track of old sectarian battles. I've been reading this magazine for years, and while it used to be kind of interesting in a "Stalinist relic" (as Norman Finkelstein referred to it in ...

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Author:	Seth Kulick
Date:	Sun Apr 16 14:21:30 PDT 2006

686 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 405

... post. I wrote: The only people in Russia who hate Stalin, which a few exceptions, are relatives of people he killed (sometimes, even they like Stalin) and a few liberals who are despised by the population ... lot of the returning soldiers were. Guess what? He liked Stalin. "I killed many fascists for Stalin" he said. He was sometimes mentally spotty due to advanved ... rushed to partially defend the camp. That is how popular Stalin was. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Jul 25 02:18:01 PDT 2003

687 [lbo-talk] singer: darwinian left -- rank: 405

http://www.marxists.org/subject/science/essays/sheehan.htm Source: Who was Lysenko?, What was Lysenkoism?, an extract from Sheehan's book Marxism and the Philosophy of Science: A Critical History (Humanities Press International 1985 and 1993); Transcribed: for marxists.org in May, 2002. > ... The Timiriazev Institute was a centre of ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Nov 24 14:35:18 PST 2004

688 [lbo-talk] Moral evaluatuon in historical explanation -- rank: 405

... lives after them -- but not forever. We still live in Stalin's shadow; his project is over, but many of his ... the detatchment we do Charlemagne. Future generations will look at Stalin that way, but that does not mean that it is ... realistically and according explanatory status. From this point of view, Stalin's wicked

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Jul 23 20:58:04 PDT 2003

689 we've got your kids, so talk! -- rank: 405

... crew may, at long last, banish the bogeyman of Joseph Stalin. NB Jonathan Freedland's Guardian column today, "Stalin Is Alive," which states: "Stalinism and its excesses have seared ...

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Author:	Carl Remick
Date:	Wed Mar 5 10:50:18 PST 2003

690 [lbo-talk] Moral Tragedy and Moral Compromise -- rank: 405

Andie Nachgeborenen makes some powerful points which I shall try to deal with briefly. 1) > But I cannot think of a major historical change > involving major conflict that was brought about by > pure and totally ethical means. ... > By way of illustration, and assuming that we are not > pacificts, if there ever ...

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Author:	Richard Harris
Date:	Fri Jul 8 14:47:40 PDT 2005