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

... the state of a country before -and after this leader. Stalin, despite his methods I ever criticized, received -the country in ...

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Author:	Alexandre Fenelon
Date:	Sat Jul 26 07:56:00 PDT 2003

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

... the state of a country >before >-and after this leader. Stalin, despite his methods I ever criticized, >received >-the country in ... superpower, >while >-Gorbatchev did the opposite"...thus implying he thinks Stalin was better. >-Btw: Medvevedīs calculation of 40,000,000 of Stalin victims seems to count >also >-non fatal repression victims. Given ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Jul 27 06:24:36 PDT 2003

933 Saddam, diabolical genius (was: Re: Jewish Collegians Prepare to Defend Israel on the Campuses) -- rank: 312

Rule One: Never let your opponent rename the thread. Glad to be rid of the NYTs' header in any case. At 06:02 PM 9/4/01 -0400, you wrote: >Rightist flags and faces got droopy real quick - the innocents were > >shit-faced, speechless that anyone on 'muricun soil could call ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Tue Sep 4 19:51:33 PDT 2001

934 Totalitarianism (was: "Clerical fascism") -- rank: 312

... other abuses. According to Arendt, Hitler's Nazi government and Stalin's communist government were totalitarian, but she rejected the claim ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Tue Oct 16 06:54:48 PDT 2001

935 WWP -- rank: 312

-----Original Message----- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >We've just been joined by Lou Paulsen, a Chicago-based member of >Workers World. He's going to tell us what the party is all about. > >Doug Hi all... well, I would make a rousing Leninist speech except that I ...

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Author:	Lou Paulsen
Date:	Mon Oct 8 19:54:12 PDT 2001

936 Wouldn't ya like to be a Stalinist, too? (was: Sedition Act) -- rank: 312

... Chris could provide some echt Stalinist memorabilia (any of that "Stalin's breath" perfume left?) that might fit the bill. Turkey ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Sun Nov 11 11:30:28 PST 2001

937 Marable weighs in -- rank: 312

... there were people who would make wild estimates of the Stalin death tolls: 20 million! 50 million! 100 million! Twice the population of the USSR-Stalin was so evil that he killed everyone TWICE! Paul Getty ... and responsible career to getting the figures right. The documentable Stalin death toll is about 8-10 million, of which 7 ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Fri Nov 9 14:47:33 PST 2001

938 [lbo-talk] anti- and pro-conspiracy theories ? -- rank: 312

... that 9/11 is not appropriate for conspiracy speculation but Stalin is ? Charles Brown From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net ...

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Author:	BrownBingb at aol.com
Date:	Sun Jul 27 16:09:32 PDT 2003

939 J D Bernal; Scientist as Revolutionary -- rank: 312

http://www.frontlineonline.com/fl1810/18100860.htm EXCELLENCE Scientist as revolutionary The life of J.D. Bernal is a testimony to the commitment that a scientist must use his knowledge and technique only for human welfare. S. CHATTERJEE SOMETIME in 1940, two men disembarked at a railway station in the English ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Sat May 19 19:06:52 PDT 2001

940 Rebuttal of anti-Communism -- rank: 312

... Russian communism did. > > > But it disturbs me when people like Stalin are praised in the process. > After all, what are we ...

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Author:	Michael Cohen
Date:	Thu Oct 15 14:07:19 PDT 1998

941 [lbo-talk] Divine Violence and Liberated Territories -- rank: 312

On 6/26/07, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > Yoshie, perhaps you should throw in some trivia about the Sopranos, > plastic porn stars or Zizek in your posts... ;-). BTW, I suspect that many Americans who say they like Zizek are not exactly down with his recent lines of thinking, just ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jun 27 09:16:39 PDT 2007

942 judicial tyranny (off topic) -- rank: 312

Off thread comment (it's too long and convoluted to intervene in, and I lack the legal-technical background (but not the interest) - suffice to say J & W seem to be talking past one another at this point.) The similarities between the USA and the ex-USSR are (were) much greater ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Wed May 16 16:57:07 PDT 2001

943 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 312

On 6/26/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote: > > The best way to support Iranians, including workers, women, students, > etc., is to stop the empire's regime change campaign, from media > propaganda, "democracy assistance," economic sanctions, diplomatic > maneuvers, to war, and to do so, it's important for ...

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Author:	Lenin's Tomb
Date:	Tue Jun 26 01:54:04 PDT 2007

944 Missing in Action -- rank: 312

>>Gordon writes: >> >>>Yoshie Furuhashi: >>>> The POW/MIA propaganda that the U.S. government & corporate media >>>> have promulgated is ideologically similar to the propaganda put out >>>> by their Japanese counterparts that North Korea abducted Japanese >>>> individuals -- especially young girls -- for espionage & other >>>> purposes. ... >>> >>>As I pointed out quite awhile back, the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri May 11 00:10:55 PDT 2001

945 Zizek within the limits of mere reason -- rank: 312

>>> <kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> 12/17/99 09:28AM >>> CB wrote: > Below, Zizek's theory of "recourse to conspiracy theories" is spun from thin air, like an Alice in Wonderland tale. There is no real phenomenon of the type he imagines. So why do you lock your doors when ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Dec 17 11:04:15 PST 1999