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46 [lbo-talk] On the term, "Political correctness" -- rank: 156

... fact. Pravda said it, we all read it, Before the Stalin-Hitler pact. O my darling, O my darling, O my ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Aug 21 19:13:07 PDT 2013

47 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 247

Words that seem to be mine below are Ira Glazer's. Just saying. On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 2013-07-17, at 3:35 PM, JOANNA A. wrote: > > > I think it's racism (under capitalism). A social safety net ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Thu Jul 18 04:45:40 PDT 2013

48 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 247

... 07-17/foodstamps-are-corporate-welfare > > Is Chomsky right -- did Stalin do such irreparable harm to the prestige of > socialist thought ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jul 17 19:00:21 PDT 2013

49 [lbo-talk] The Additive Error -- rank: 156

Building A Left takes quite a few activists, many more than we have now. The core political strength of capitalism is expressed in the proverb used by JKF in his Inaugural and which too many (who might otherwise be leftists) believe: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jul 17 15:21:03 PDT 2013

50 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 156

The blog seems like a left analysis (one of long standing) and distinctly non-libertarian. It's mainly the ego-driven style ("the key point I want to hammer into people"---ouch---and "I previously covered these topics in two popular posts") that makes it sound libertarian. Yet presumably the blogger ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Wed Jul 17 13:42:07 PDT 2013

51 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 156

... 07-17/foodstamps-are-corporate-welfare Is Chomsky right -- did Stalin do such irreparable harm to the prestige of socialist thought ...

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Author:	JOANNA A.
Date:	Wed Jul 17 12:35:07 PDT 2013

52 [lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire -- rank: 156

... 07-17/foodstamps-are-corporate-welfare Is Chomsky right -- did Stalin do such irreparable harm to the prestige of socialist thought ...

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Author:	Ira Glazer
Date:	Wed Jul 17 11:58:59 PDT 2013

53 [lbo-talk] White Supremacy (was Tim Wise) -- rank: 156

... There are a lot of bad things to say about Stalin, but laying Wojtek at the door of his Kremlin apartment ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Fri Jul 12 17:22:42 PDT 2013

54 [lbo-talk] France's Marine Le Pen loses immunity as MEP -- rank: 156

... favor of free speech for > views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, > then ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jul 3 09:48:39 PDT 2013

55 [lbo-talk] France's Marine Le Pen loses immunity as MEP -- rank: 156

... favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then ...

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Author:	Carl G. Estabrook
Date:	Tue Jul 2 17:48:50 PDT 2013

56 [lbo-talk] left for dead -- rank: 156

[Word] http://automnia.tumblr.com/post/54203935812/left-for-dead [...] The left is fucked. The Left is a construct of the 18th century. As the King of France struggled to protect divine autocracy, the Constituent Assembly of 1789-91 split; the radicals moved to sit together on the president s ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Sun Jun 30 10:58:58 PDT 2013

57 [lbo-talk] Tribute to Nin in Barcelona -- rank: 247

(Below is a report on a remarkable tribute in Barcelona earlier this month to Andreu Nin, the leader of the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification) during the Spanish Civil War. The POUM was first brought to the attention of a wider English-speaking audience by George Orwell in Homage ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Wed Jun 26 05:45:51 PDT 2013

58 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 156

Shane Mage: In desperate need of *some* extenuation for his Bushit friend Obama, ^^^^^ CB: Obama needs no defense in this. ^^^^ cb comes up with the fantasy that willful violation of the Fourth Amendment (the supreme law of the land) is not a "crime." ^^^^^ CB: It's not. For example, failure to ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Mon Jun 17 06:20:27 PDT 2013

59 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 247

... S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > > RE. "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should > > anyone have to say ... police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin and > his posse. O my God, a cage fight between ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Wed Jun 12 18:28:40 PDT 2013

60 [lbo-talk] Fwd: c -- rank: 312

... S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > RE. "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should anyone have > to say more? > > [WS:] This analogy is plain wrong. Joe Stalin did not have to *gather* > information. He and his security ... police have a history of making things up worse than Stalin and his posse. The main concern with the NSA thingy ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Wed Jun 12 15:14:58 PDT 2013