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871 [lbo-talk] Critical review of Clooney film on McCarthyism -- rank: 312

... was a demagogue, nobody in America was rooting for Josef Stalin or helped him. And here's the logical corollary, subscribed ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Fri Feb 17 07:26:07 PST 2006

872 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist -- rank: 312

James Heartfield The difference was that Stalin, rather than take control of the situation let it slide.... ^^^^^ CB: Gee how unStalinist of Stalin not to take control of the situation. Do I understand you are criticizing Stalin for not exercising enough authority ?

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Aug 13 09:43:09 PDT 2009

873 Virtual Polibureau Debate -- rank: 312

Henry Liu: >I have yet to hear from Proyect about his personal views which from time to >time I find interesting on other subjects on which I do not considered myself >well informed. Perhaps I am either not academic enough or informed enough to >deserve a direct response (which I must ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Thu Nov 26 12:09:10 PST 1998

874 Magnetic Mountain + Steeltown, USSR -- rank: 312

... be allowed into Magnitogorsk, a city built in response to Stalin's decision to transform the predominantly agricultural nation into a ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jan 31 09:14:34 PST 2003

875 Nuclear weapons -- rank: 312

>>> Brett Knowlton <brettk at unica-usa.com> 12/13/99 07:09PM >>> This thread is a bit weird. Its always been my view that nukes should be eliminated, not spread around. Granted, there is something to be said for MAD and its deterrent effect. I can see how having a ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Dec 14 07:21:33 PST 1999

876 [lbo-talk] Caucasian Geo-graphy -- rank: 312

... don't mean this as a dig at Georgia, but Stalin and Beria are in fact Georgian national heroes to this ... started a victory march in 2003 from the statue of Stalin in Gori. It's not surprising, given that they are ... wrote: The > republic's most notorious 'favorite son' was > Joseph > Stalin, who once studied for the priesthood in > Tbilisi. Georgia produces ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Aug 22 18:05:12 PDT 2008

877 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 312

... Seay <entheogens at yahoo.com> >Chiang, >Mao once said that Stalin was 85% good, 15% bad. That >should be some indication of his orientation, no? Or >do you defend Stalin as well? --- Well, that opinion is rather widespread in Russia ... make a perfectly rational cost-benefit analysis and argue that Stalin was good for the country (note that you cannot do ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Jul 1 02:06:40 PDT 2003

878 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 312

Chris, Mao is utterly despised by most intellectuals in China, although most of their ire is usually directed at post-anti-rightist-movement (1957) Mao. Some still admire and respect the fact he actually led a revolution which kicked out the colonial powers and the KMT, and did away with the ...

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Author:	Jonathan Lassen
Date:	Tue Jul 1 11:49:13 PDT 2003

879 [lbo-talk] A Call from the Maoists of Iran -- rank: 312

Sounds a lot like Russia, actually . . . . jks --- Jonathan Lassen <jjlassen at chinastudygroup.org> wrote: > Chris, > > Mao is utterly despised by most intellectuals in > China, although most of > their ire is usually directed at > post-anti-rightist-movement (1957) Mao. > Some still admire and respect the fact he actually > led a revolution ...

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Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Tue Jul 1 16:29:15 PDT 2003

880 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis a Stalinist -- rank: 312

... a single decision, taht anyone could have called wrong. But Stalin, and the group around him fought a bitter struggle first ... thousands who did so were imprisoned, and hundreds killed - by Stalin's supporters. But it would be wrong to say that it was not easy to see that Stalin's road was mistaken, because many, many Bolsheviks did, and ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 13 10:38:52 PDT 2009

881 [lbo-talk] Julian Assange, a Leninist in practice? -- rank: 312

... to 'do away with'; that is, the Lenin created by Stalin, Trotsky, various Mensheviks and bourgeois scholars after Lenin's death ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Jul 9 20:26:30 PDT 2011

882 Principled Discoursin' (was Re: [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy) -- rank: 312

... of the subject at all. Roosevelt also spoke highly of Stalin at times. What does that mean? Also, Brad wrote about Sweezy praising Stalin's theoretical work. What if Stalin had been a Nobel Prize-winning mathematician? Would it be ...

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Author:	Michael Perelman
Date:	Mon Mar 1 09:18:16 PST 2004

883 marxist sociology -- rank: 312

... the forced collectivization of the 30s without mentioning that a) Stalin or b) that it was forced. The 800-odd-page book also mentions Stalin a whopping four times and Trotsky not once. Chris Doss ... for Soviet philosophy, ptowee, there was no such thing after Stalin killed almost anyone with a brain in the USSR. I ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Feb 20 23:14:12 PST 2002

884 [lbo-talk] Obama adviser compares Putin to Hitler -- rank: 312

... the Caucasus, likening its tactics to those of "Hitler or Stalin". Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was the national security adviser under President ... a course that is horrifyingly similar to that taken by Stalin and Hitler in the 1930s". He said that Putin's ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Tue Aug 12 13:33:06 PDT 2008

885 [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy -- rank: 312

... were made, i.e., Sweezy was in fact agreeing with Stalin that socialism had not, as of yet, suspended the law ... agreed with); (b) that to the extent that Sweezy supported Stalin, like many others on the left they did so because ...

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Author:	T Fast
Date:	Mon Mar 1 10:58:27 PST 2004