Search LBO-Talk Archives

961 [lbo-talk] Soviet Nostalgia (was Re: Soviet nomenklatura privileges) -- rank: 312

... This is >also the first generation who, when asked about Stalin, neither say >"He was a hero!" or "He was a murderous villian!" but rather >"Stalin, whatever.") They're picking up the symbols that surround >them ...

Document Size:	16424
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Jun 10 02:10:25 PDT 2003

962 The Vicissitudes of Proletarian Internationalism -- rank: 312

Michael P. writes: << One of the cites from Peter Waterman's great website. An ex-Communist who did not turn neo-con ouit of disillusionment with Stalinism. http://www.antenna.nl/~waterman/hopeful.html Waterman, Peter. 1991a. 'Understanding Socialist and Proletarian Internationalism: The Impossible Past and Possible Future of Emancipation on ...

Document Size:	13369
Author:	LeoCasey at aol.com
Date:	Fri Feb 9 10:49:47 PST 2001

963 Anti-Democratic America -- rank: 312

>>> Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> 12/09/99 09:26AM >>> Almost half a century later, it ought to be possible to talk rationally about whether the CP made all the right decisions about how to deal with a repressive era--like having its members deny their politics in order ...

Document Size:	8170
Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Dec 9 13:20:44 PST 1999

964 Racism, Left Book Club -- rank: 312

The WEEK ending 5 August 2001 UN World Conference Against Racism The planned United Nations' conference against racism has been heavily trailed as a contest between former colonial and colonised powers over the demand for compensation. The preparatory committee has clashed over inclusion of slavery in the themes for discussion, and ...

Document Size:	9942
Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 5 01:17:35 PDT 2001

965 Suck on war -- rank: 312

... mass deportation we have not seen since the days of Stalin and Hitler." Other officials shot for the same idea but ...

Document Size:	16880
Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 12 11:24:25 PDT 1999

966 [lbo-talk] Colored Dispatches From The Uzbek Border -- rank: 312

***** Callaloo 25.4 (2002) 1115-1135 Colored Dispatches From The Uzbek Border Langston Hughes' Relevance, 1933-2002 David Chioni Moore [Figures: <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/callaloo/v025/25.4moore_figures.html>] ...[Langston] Hughes had first learned about the Soviet Union while in his multicultural Cleveland high school, where he ...

Document Size:	25702
Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jun 18 09:57:38 PDT 2003

967 china question -- rank: 312

Will labor's bashing of China during the WTO/trade debates give Bush political ammunition as he rattles his saber over the spy plane crisis? Commentary: Walker's World - The real China debate Apr 08 2001 9:09 AM EST WASHINGTON, April 8 (UPI) -- Deep below the headlines, and far from ...

Document Size:	10897
Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Sun Apr 8 08:32:58 PDT 2001

968 Fw: Can Humanity Free Itself from Global Capitalism? -- rank: 312

----- Original Message ----- From: Anne J <annenewyork at hotmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 5:34 PM Subject: Can Humanity Free Itself from Global Capitalism? : >You are invited to a series of four discussions on : > : > : >***************************************************** : > : > CAN HUMANITY FREE ITSELF FROM GLOBAL CAPITALISM? : > : >A new look at : > _Marxism and Freedom, from ...

Document Size:	14311
Author:	Andrew_Kliman
Date:	Sat Oct 28 05:50:37 PDT 2000

969 [lbo-talk] Hobsbawm -- rank: 312

O.K. This is responsive to my question. I'm not sure I agree with the judgments made, but that is another matter. Carrol > -----Original Message----- > From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On > Behalf Of James Heartfield > Sent: Tuesday, October 02 ...

Document Size:	8032
Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Oct 2 16:01:34 PDT 2012

970 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 312

... out. Later, as the initial successes ran into the ground, Stalin and other Soviet leaders played the patriotic Russian chauvinst card ... defence against Hitler. Also, as Trotsky argued at the time, Stalin played on anti-Semitic prejudices to defeat the opposition and ...

Document Size:	6150
Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Feb 2 03:30:07 PST 2010

971 Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa') -- rank: 312

Oh, and after I said, let's not attack each other but recognize that action all along the spectrum is necessary, I get attacked for naivete and cynicism, accused of donkey flag waving and going all giddy. My last comment on this until after the general election: I know the Democrats ...

Document Size:	11085
Author:	andie nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Jan 21 09:42:25 PST 2007

972 Purer Than Thou (Was Re: [lbo-talk] Obama 'was educated in madrassa') -- rank: 312

... comes to mind is CP members and supporters during the Stalin era, who complained with futility for decades that they simply ... m imagining a US politcal media during the pre-purgative Stalin years: Trotsky attended Hebrew school, says Stalin camp. A pundit takes the microphone: I just don't ...

Document Size:	8051
Author:	amadeus amadeus
Date:	Sun Jan 21 08:53:39 PST 2007

973 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 312

... out. Later, as the initial successes ran into the ground, Stalin and other

Document Size:	7182
Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Tue Feb 2 04:34:43 PST 2010

974 [lbo-talk] Althusser, NLR and the meaning of 'Stalinism' -- rank: 312

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 11:00, James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: > > If you were in this gang, you were a force for reaction in the world. Giving the PCF a little bit of left-cover, just at the point that militants were beginning to see through ...

Document Size:	8710
Author:	Sean Andrews
Date:	Mon Feb 22 11:11:38 PST 2010

975 Warsaw, 1943 and 1944 -- rank: 312

... Ken Lawrence wrote: > > > > W. Kiernan wrote, > > > > > just the same as Stalin used up the Jewish partisans in Warsaw; > > > > Say what? Is ... even some > > Polish nationalist historians dispute the old saw that Stalin could > > easily have liberated Warsaw. > > I guess nobody but Polish ...

Document Size:	8339
Author:	W. Kiernan
Date:	Wed Apr 7 18:33:51 PDT 1999