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136 [lbo-talk] On the other hand...Assange... -- rank: 156

... would have staying in the SU and being shot by Stalin. Certainly he lived longer and by most standards I can ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Aug 24 15:47:42 PDT 2012

137 [lbo-talk] Some quotes on Syria -- rank: 156

Shane: "This is the standard apologia for reactionary dictatorships. Stalin could claim it." [WS] So what? A stopped clock shows ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jul 25 13:01:25 PDT 2012

138 [lbo-talk] Some quotes on Syria -- rank: 156

... means nothing. This is the standard apologia for reactionary dictatorships. Stalin could claim it. So could Hitler, with equal justice. Millions ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Jul 25 12:19:51 PDT 2012

139 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

The lead sentence on the web site is one of the ugliest bits of prose you'll ever see. Makes me think even I could have been a journalist. On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07 ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Sat Jul 21 18:24:29 PDT 2012

140 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

Mean-spirited and tendentious, without the courage to take on Cockburn's politics. "Information on Mr. Cockburn's survivors was not immediately available" does not speak well for the Times' reportorial skills. On Jul 21, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/business ...

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Author:	Carl G. Estabrook
Date:	Sat Jul 21 16:00:26 PDT 2012

141 [lbo-talk] NY Times Obit for Alex Cockburn -- rank: 156

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/business/media/alexander-cockburn-left- wing-writer-dies-at-71.html?_r=1 July 21, 2012 Alexander Cockburn, Left-Wing Writer, Is Dead at 71 By COLIN MOYNIHAN Alexander Cockburn, the acerbic left-wing journalist and author who though born in Scotland thrived in ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jul 21 15:47:07 PDT 2012

142 [lbo-talk] Shorris on Strauss -- rank: 156

Let's go a bit further on this. Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Mao, Luxemburg, et al were not revolutionaries because they were ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Jul 3 19:27:02 PDT 2012

143 [lbo-talk] Where Are the Troubled Consciences over Greece? -- rank: 156

... against the atrocities perpetrated on the people of Greece. Had Stalin done to Greece what the IMF/EU Commission and ECB ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Mar 4 09:14:41 PST 2012

144 [lbo-talk] prison privatization -- rank: 156

America's Gulag: The Money (in Politics) Behind Prison Privatization The Huffington Post published an excellent pieceyesterday by reporter Chris Kirkham describing how the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) wants to buy up state prisons, all under the guise of helping state governments deal with their budget shortfalls. Called the Corrections ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sun Feb 19 16:37:51 PST 2012

145 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 156

(Amplifying Angelus's post.) We've had two self-styled "anarchists" on this list in the past (neither of whom had much in common with any "anarchist" position currently expressed on this list. One, Chuck Munson, expressed his anarchism through a number of ways, the two most prominent being virulent ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Feb 11 12:45:43 PST 2012

146 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 156

but anyway, guys, thanks very much for the *cough* debate. one thing it's done for me is that, as carrol once said about his marxism, he was a marxist before he ever called himself one. what this debate and the political emergence of OWS has helped me see is that ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Feb 11 12:44:35 PST 2012

147 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 156

... Lenin-Trotsky.  For Maoists, Marx-Engels-Lenin-Mao (sometimes with Stalin, sometimes without).  The creative ones on either side will allow ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sat Feb 11 12:02:29 PST 2012

148 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 156

... the Soviet leadership adopted a strategy centered on Warsaw and Stalin, in command of its Southern group, treacherously implemented his own ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Fri Feb 10 18:05:48 PST 2012

149 [lbo-talk] 93% support Occupy Oakland -- rank: 362

... take your logical fallacy detector out and apply it. that stalin got the % means squat. WTF? Stalin? You raise Stalin? LOL that the numbers may be inflated given self selection ... don't now the SU collapsed.) > >95% is the vote Stalin use to get. For that you need color-coded ballots ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Fri Feb 10 10:58:54 PST 2012

150 [lbo-talk] 93% support Occupy Oakland -- rank: 156

... don't now the SU collapsed.) 95% is the vote Stalin use to get. For that you need color-coded ballots ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Feb 10 10:23:17 PST 2012