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76 [lbo-talk] Was something about Atheism & Humanism -- rank: 156

... with the Russian Revolution which James was explicitly aware (How Stalin killed the Revolutio

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Nov 18 15:40:03 PST 2012

77 [lbo-talk] 40 Helpful Tips For Anti-Communists -- rank: 580

http://kasamaproject.org/2010/07/28/40-helpful-tips-for-anti-communists/ 40 Helpful Tips For Anti-Communists Posted by Mike E on July 28, 2010 Thanks to Dustin for this. by J. Slavyanski 1. Constantly insist that Marxism is discredited, outdated, and totally dead and buried. Then proceed to build ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Tue Nov 13 10:34:48 PST 2012

78 [lbo-talk] and then there's always war movies.... -- rank: 156

... German war in east Africa) Alexander Nevsky (a favorite of Stalin's, the Teutonic Knights wear coal scuttle helmets) Saving private ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Oct 29 09:10:44 PDT 2012

79 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 521

... of Strelnikov in Dr. Zhivago!). Expelled from the USSR by Stalin in 1929, he spent the rest of his life in ... exile in a series of countries and was assassinated by Stalin's agent in 1940 in Mexico City. The Trotskyist left opposed Stalin's polic

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80 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 405

... of the international proletarian revolution. Only Great Russian chauvinists like Stalin (and that is exactly what Lenin called Stalin, along with his henchmen Dzherzhinsky and Ordjonikidze, in 1923) conceived ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Fri Oct 19 09:18:16 PDT 2012

81 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 362

... of the international proletarian revolution. Only Great Russian chauvinists like Stalin (and that is exactly what Lenin called Stalin, along with his henchmen Dzherzhinsky and Ordjonikidze, in 1923) conceived ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Oct 18 09:52:14 PDT 2012

82 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 156

... by the character of Strelnikov in Dr. Zhivago!).... Trotsky and Stalin differed substantially about the future course of Communism, and Trotsky ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 18 08:37:36 PDT 2012

83 [lbo-talk] Trotsky joke.... -- rank: 362

A telegram arrives at the Kremlin, from Trotsky, addressed to Stalin. An aide reads the telegram and rushes breathlessly to tell Stalin the news. "Comrade," he stammers excitedly, "a telegram from Trotsky ... He acknowledges his faults." "What are you talking about?" replies Stalin, "Read the telegram." "Sure, sure," says the aide, "here it ... is over; the party is healed." "Wait a second," says Stalin, "you're not reading that right. Here give it to ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Wed Oct 17 10:46:07 PDT 2012

84 [lbo-talk] Who was Leon Trotsky? -- rank: 247

Who was Leon Trotsky? > http://understandingsociety.blogspot.com/2012/10/who-was-leon-trotsky.html > > thoughts? > -- > -Nathan Tankus -------------------- Great Wednesday morning read and half hour of an interview. And it wonders, pretty much what I wondered all the while reading Trotsky...what if this guy had won? I think the fact ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Oct 17 09:41:04 PDT 2012

85 [lbo-talk] catastrophism -- rank: 156

Thanks, Marv. The figure given seems at least a good starting point. A few years ago someone on pen-l (responding to a question I had raised) estimated that "surplus deaths" from IMF 'activity' amounted to around 20 million plus. One can also run into "what might have been" issues. The ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Oct 14 08:33:53 PDT 2012

86 [lbo-talk] catastrophism -- rank: 156

... to political bias, particularly in relation to the famines under Stalin Mao. A quick scan of this study, for instance, appears ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Oct 14 06:49:39 PDT 2012

87 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 312

... aka socialism in a single country) is the proclamation by Stalin, at the start of the extermination of the bolsheviks, that ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Fri Oct 12 09:45:36 PDT 2012

88 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 312

... aka socialism in a single country) is the proclamation by Stalin, at the start of the extermination of the bolsheviks, that ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Thu Oct 11 13:23:05 PDT 2012

89 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 247

O.K. I'm not sure I agree with all of this, but Marv's post does (a) take my question seriously and (b) respond in relevant terms. It can be the basis for discussion in a way earlier posts on the topic were not. I'm sorry I used a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 11 13:02:54 PDT 2012

90 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 247

On 2012-10-11, at 10:28 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > My original question did not refer to the Soviet Union but to use of the > word to label parties or individuals in the capitalist world. Was the French > Communist Party in (say) 1968 a "Stalinist Party"? If it was, what ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Oct 11 12:50:59 PDT 2012