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796 [lbo-talk] I'm a "committed Leninist" -- rank: 362

Ted said: >For Marx, "socialism" is the penultimate stage in the development of >rational self-consciousness. The central role given to the labour process >in this development results from Marx's sublation of Hegel's account of >this development in the Phenomenology. This explains the claim in The Holy >Family that ...

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Author:	Todd Archer
Date:	Fri May 28 11:51:42 PDT 2004

797 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

... at Stalingrad were key. There is simply no question that Stalin made a very hard and concerted effort to create a ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:23:54 PDT 2012

798 Was Walter Benjamin Murdered By The Stalinists? -- rank: 362

... Nazis," author Stephen Schwartz writes. "Was he actually murdered by Stalin's agents?" The article suggests that Schwartz is hardly an ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Mon Jun 25 07:33:30 PDT 2001

799 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 362

... like this sort of thing gets > lost in the Hitler/Stalin comparisons. > > mbs > > > > > > > From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com> > > > I just read that during the worst years of Stalin only 2.5% of the Soviet > population was in prison ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Sun Apr 20 19:39:41 PDT 2003

800 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Douglas Tottle, Fraud, Famine and Fascism -- rank: 362

http://www.artukraine.com/famineart/bibliography.htm http://shevchenko.org/famine/ Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 15:24:15 -0600 From: "David R. Marples" David.Marples at ualberta.ca Concerning Grover Furr's comments, on the annotated bibliography of the Ukraine Famine of 1932-33, I would suggest that non-academic ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Sun Sep 7 15:26:58 PDT 2003

801 [lbo-talk] Re: Cultural Changes (Marxist Democracy) -- rank: 362

... past few hours online, I've found that the pre-Stalin USSR apparently didn't persecute queers. Apparently Stalin also reversed an earlier policy of "pro-choice" vis-a-vis abortion. --- If memory serves, it was Stalin's outlawing of abortion that caused Sidney Hook to leave ... never outlawed. As far as I know, in the post-Stalin era anyway, "punishments" for homosexuality were quite arbitrarily applied. People ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu May 13 01:33:23 PDT 2004

802 [lbo-talk] Polish Philosopher Wins $1M Kluge Prize -- rank: 362

... unifi.it/unifi/surfchem/solid/bardi/sovietjokes.html > Stories about Stalin It is said that in old times being accepted in ... after it was passed by a young candidate named Josif Stalin. The test consisted in giving to the candidate a gun ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Nov 7 17:32:27 PST 2003

803 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

It's hard for people today to realize how much real gloom there was in the U.S. in 1942 -- and it was more or less realistic gloom. Had the Germans broken through at Stalingrad and at El Alamein -- both real possibilities -- the last 60 years would have been quite different ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:39:15 PDT 2012

804 [lbo-talk] Cast of "Reds" -- rank: 362

Don't know. The Stalin statues were coming down too. Sent from my iPad On ... comcast.net wrote: > Are there more Lenin statues left than Stalin statues? Is anyone making new Stalin statues? > > Inquiring minds want to know.... > > Joanna > > ----- Original Message ----- > andie ... what, in 1991? I think the polls consistently show that > Stalin remains more popular, though both of them decreasingly so. > > ^^^^^^ > > https ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Wed Sep 5 19:16:21 PDT 2012

805 [lbo-talk] Another view of the USSR -- rank: 362

I pass this on since it's a matter of some interest to lefties. Since I was writing on Russian politics and the USSR (I am a muse :) ) my girlfriend from Kazkhstan composed a sort of interview with herself on the subject to help her with her English, which is not ...

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Author:	" Chris Doss "
Date:	Wed Mar 31 03:41:42 PST 2004

806 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

I have a pre-Stalingrad edition of the Maude translation of War and Peace with a map inside the front and back covers of the the then farthest lines of the Nazi advance into Russia. It still chills my blood to look at it. Sent from my iPad On Oct 8 ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Oct 8 09:21:19 PDT 2012

807 [lbo-talk] Heidegger -- rank: 362

... Nazi cooties" approach. One, while Hitler was not a Heideggerian, Stalin was in fact a Marxist. I would imagine that the ... Nazi ideology (the race thing), the links between Marx and Stalin are obvious. Three, while Hitler probably had only the vaguest ... no influence whatsoever on Hitler's worldview or actions, everything Stalin did was in Marx's name, both in word and ... know the common tactic here is to say that the Stalin people were "v

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jul 8 09:16:12 PDT 2008

808 [lbo-talk] World War as Class War -- rank: 362

c b wrote: > > c b cb31450 > > > Hoo boy -- a Stalinist/Nazi slap fight's a brewin'! And it's only > > 2010! > > It's amazing how the passage of 70 years hasn't dulled the ardor, eh? > > Doug > > ^^^^^^^ > CB: Of course, debates about Milton, Shakespeare, Jesus or Aristotle > are fresh as daisies ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Jan 22 10:43:32 PST 2010

809 [lbo-talk] Gulag query -- rank: 362

CB: Is this why Stalin was so, literally, > > popular ? -- Me: Stalin is/was so popular because of the economic boom, industrialization ... have a point. The USSR was a peasant society before Stalin. The Moscow metro still has the attendants by the escalators Stalin placed there to guard against peasants, who had never seen ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Apr 22 01:49:07 PDT 2003

810 [lbo-talk] Religion and Nazi Collaboration -- rank: 362

... by parachute 160 kilometers west of Moscow to assassinate Josef Stalin. Shilo, a sales executive who had been jailed for embezzlement ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sat May 7 06:20:17 PDT 2005