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901 Rebuttal of anti-Sovietism -- rank: 312

I agree Stalin and the Stalinists committed enormous crimes including falsely labelling people ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Oct 16 13:19:07 PDT 1998

902 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 312

... is the first time I've ever seen anybody support Stalin's line: > >"one death is a tragedy, a million deaths ... I think that's public domain anyhow, not copyrighted by Stalin. I first heard it (not ascribed to Stalin) as One death is a tragedy, 10,000 a problem ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Jul 21 19:16:17 PDT 2003

903 Rebuttal of anti-Communism -- rank: 312

... indicate political terrorism, typically by focusing on the crimes of Stalin - remember, for these ideologues all of Soviet history and all ... of what the manufactured facts say about the evil of Stalin). Part of this is because even if they had facts ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Oct 15 07:12:14 PDT 1998

904 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 312

... the most politically savvy minds in Russia at the time. Stalin was probably a sadist with tendencies toward paranoia that were ... in having a "who was more evil than who?" contest? Stalin? Hitler? Mao? Why not Nero? Demonizing specific figures has the ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jul 23 05:36:42 PDT 2003

905 "post-leftism" -- rank: 312

... notice how similar this is to the propaganda >> model of Stalin's USSR. Stalin maintained that socialism could be achieved in >> a single country ... only its citizens became "good socialists" and >> "anti-imperialists." This, Stalin maintained would, keep Capitalism "in >> check". The foundation for revolution ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Wed Aug 14 07:41:44 PDT 2002

906 [lbo-talk] Marxism-Leninism and humor -- a joke from a bygone era -- rank: 312

... An envoy arrives breathless at the Kremlin and breaks into Stalin's office! "Comrade Stalin" he shouts "Great news. The split is over. Trotsky has ... world is in chains. Trotsky.' "Hang on there a minute," Stalin says, "Let me see that." He grabs the telegram and ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Fri Oct 26 11:57:48 PDT 2007

907 [lbo-talk] Brad "Vyshinsky" DeLong -- rank: 312

... 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?

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:12:16 PDT 2003

908 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 312

... we cannot apply the terms "insane" or >"lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by >Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational," >there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin. So are you arguing that several decades of Soviet history ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:22:19 PDT 2003

909 "post-leftism" -- rank: 312

I have to agree with David on this one, Chuck. Surely you know that any better society is not as dependent upon people becoming, well, "good," as it is on developing instutitional means to hold coercive forces in check. The point isn't making people become angelic; it's constructing means ...

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Author:	Brian O. Sheppard x349393
Date:	Wed Aug 14 07:43:23 PDT 2002

910 [lbo-talk] London launch, Unpatriotic History of 2WW - Thurs -- rank: 312

THE UNPATRIOTIC HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR. 'a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War' Anti-Capitalist Initiative http://anticapitalists.org/2012/08/16/the-truth-behind-the-second-world-war/ ``Overall, Heartfield offers a compelling and fascinating analysis, demolishing conventional accounts of the War and successfully ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Sep 21 12:26:42 PDT 2012

911 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 312

... we cannot apply the terms "insane" or >> "lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by >> Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational," >> there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin. > > > So are you arguing that several decades of Soviet history ...

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Author:	Brian Siano
Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:29:43 PDT 2003

912 "post-leftism" -- rank: 312

... notice how similar this is to the propaganda >> model of Stalin's USSR. Stalin maintained that socialism could be achieved in >> a single country ... only its citizens became "good socialists" and >> "anti-imperialists." This, Stalin maintained would, keep Capitalism "in >> check". The foundation for revolution ...

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Author:	Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Date:	Tue Aug 13 21:50:36 PDT 2002

913 "post-leftism" -- rank: 312

... notice how similar this is to the propaganda > model of Stalin's USSR. Stalin maintained that socialism could be achieved in > a single country ... only its citizens became "good socialists" and > "anti-imperialists." This, Stalin maintained would, keep Capitalism "in > check". The foundation for revolution ...

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Author:	Chuck Munson
Date:	Tue Aug 13 20:42:05 PDT 2002

914 "post-leftism" -- rank: 312

... notice how similar this is to the propaganda model of Stalin's USSR. Stalin maintained that socialism could be achieved in a single country ... only its citizens became "good socialists" and "anti-imperialists." This, Stalin maintained would, keep Capitalism "in check". The foundation for revolution ...

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Author:	Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Date:	Tue Aug 13 19:22:51 PDT 2002

915 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 312

... and wreak fearful slaughter. Pol Pot... Kim Il >Sung... Mao... Stalin... Ceausescu. That a series of American presidents have directed the ... to satisfactorily explain what. Krushchev & Brezhnev were hardly monsters. Post-Stalin Soviet life was mostly about stability and getting by. A problem for anyone who believes in democracy: Stalin was broadly popular (and still is among lots of Russians ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 09:53:53 PDT 2003