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721 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 405

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 23:48:30 EDT, <BrownBingb at aol.com> wrote: >> CB: Sure it can. Where you reside you must have learned by now that >> anti-Sovietism was the biggest lie of the 20th Century. Even you Charles would have run afoul of Article 75 of the, "Most ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Thu Apr 10 23:45:54 PDT 2003

722 Anti-Democratic America -- rank: 405

... Charles: It was a necessary evil to give the Soviets ( Stalin was one person; the war was won by millions of ... I stand to be corrected, but I do not think Stalin anticipated a war with Germany - everything suggests that Soviets were ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Dec 10 08:41:09 PST 1999

723 the contribution of the communist party -- rank: 405

... the level of control by or independence from Moscow and Stalin, role and rank and file support for Lovestone, and the ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Aug 6 09:39:55 PDT 1998

724 [lbo-talk] Fw: Can Politics Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? -- rank: 405

Marvin's summary of this thread should end the debate, but it wont. In my first academic job, I learned there is nothing so viscious as an intellectual argument. The reason is that there is so little at stake in them, other than pride and self-regard. Business people rarely argue ...

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Author:	Robert Wrubel
Date:	Mon Oct 15 13:06:46 PDT 2007

725 [lbo-talk] Medvedev text -- rank: 405

Here's the first half of the chapter. Socialism in Russia? By Roy Medvedev pp. 16-19 Was It Socialism? (Part One) The unexpected and rapid collapse of the communist regimes in the USSR and the countries of Eastern Europe again made socialism both as an idea and as a societal ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Mar 24 06:46:52 PST 2006

726 the contribution of the communist party -- rank: 405

Dear all, Charles asks in his post below whether we or at least some of us might be interested in continuing this thread in greater depth. I would be, in part for two of the reasons he mentions. First, I agree wholeheartedly that the Left has been crippled by its general ...

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Author:	Jamie Owen Daniel
Date:	Fri Aug 7 06:41:51 PDT 1998

727 [lbo-talk] Brad "Vyshinsky" DeLong -- rank: 405

... jargon/terms/g/Godwin_s_Law.html > >> > >>I nominate the Stalin corollary as Henwood's > law.............. > >> > You'd have to explain what the Stalin corollary is. > What happens if > Stalin is invoked? Is there an inevitable > conclusion? > _______ Henwood's Law (aka the Stalin corollary to Godwin's Law): When Stalin is invoked on the LBO list, Doug enforces the posting ...

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Author:	Gail Brock
Date:	Thu Jul 24 08:10:53 PDT 2003

728 RES: [lbo-talk] Re: invasion of the body counters -- rank: 405

... cites: It seems to the present author more likely that Stalin simply did not care about mass deaths and was more ... of peasants or nomads. --- I think that just about sums Stalin up. I stand by my Peter the Great comparison. I think if Stalin were alive today, he would say something like, "Shut up ... we hear about them?" And no, I am not justifying Stalin (or Peter). But the deaths didn't happen just because Stalin Was Evil. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC -

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat May 31 04:05:11 PDT 2003

729 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 405

... of the international proletarian revolution. Only Great Russian chauvinists like Stalin (and that is exactly what Lenin called Stalin, along with his henchmen Dzherzhinsky and Ordjonikidze, in 1923) conceived ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Oct 19 09:18:16 PDT 2012

730 [lbo-talk] Dissentoids dissent -- rank: 405

(As he put it then, "If ever a country deserved rape it's Afghanistan. Nothing but mountains filled with barbarous ethnics with views as medieval as their muskets, and unspeakably cruel too.") via http://www.google.com/search?q=if%20ever%20a%20country%20deserved%20rape%2C%20it's%20Afghanistan Now ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Wed Aug 2 12:30:52 PDT 2006

731 Harry , a son of the Devil himself -- rank: 405

... dropping the bomb on the Japanese had >it. I trust Stalin more than Harry Truman . > >CB How many people would Stalin have to have killed before you would trust him *less ... to have killed before you would trust him less than Stalin (question mark( If 30 million doesn't do it, what ... that monster Reagan with star wars ? And when you say "Stalin killed" do you mean as a leader in a class ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Dec 13 16:30:03 PST 1999

732 Anti-Democratic America -- rank: 405

>>> Brett Knowlton <brettk at unica-usa.com> 12/10/99 11:46AM >>> Charles, First let me apologize for implicitly comparing you to Henry Kissinger - I respect you views, and agree with you on a lot of other issues. I only meant to point out that I thought (and still do ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Dec 10 10:11:38 PST 1999

733 Lavender Lard -- rank: 405

... GMT 16:27 UK (BBC) > Russian satirist sued over 'gay Stalin' > > Walking Together destroys Sorokin's books > Local prosecutors in Moscow ... Russian > author who wrote about a fictional homosexual relationship between Stalin > and Khrushchev. > Sorokin's novels frequently feature elements of the ...

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Author:	ChrisD(RJ)
Date:	Wed Jan 8 07:23:25 PST 2003

734 RES: North Korea -- rank: 405

... I am a Leninist. I'm not a follower of Stalin, but anti-communists tend to exaggerate his crimes (a la ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Tue Apr 25 19:39:57 PDT 2000

735 [lbo-talk] Beria question/Litvinov -- rank: 405

... roughly someone who joined the Party before the October Revolution. Stalin was an old Bolshevik. So was Molotov. PPeople who joined ... Stalinist, and even then . . . Murderous frat boys, that's good. Stalin used to call random officials at all hours, and if ... but what exactly is > the > definition of an "Old Bolshevik"? Stalin counts as > an > Old Bolshie, doesn't he? > > Molotov -- "the ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Feb 22 08:48:00 PST 2005