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

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 features identified it as suc? Was the SWP in 1968 a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Thu Oct 11 07:28:31 PDT 2012

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

... Bolsheviks would have been less savage and destructive than Stalinism. Stalin was a mad tyrant in the tradition of Ivan the ... the disadvantages under which they labored. That does not justify Stalin's tyranny or the manifold failings and crimes of the ...

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Date:	Wed Oct 10 22:46:54 PDT 2012

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

... and > interference in other their country by a foreign power. Stalin's or > Trotsky's fomenting revolution in other countries would ... for the Communists in those countries. That happened > anyway, but Stalin and them were conscious that Soviet agitation in > other countries ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Oct 9 19:06:58 PDT 2012

94 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 405

... by Bukharin - would have mitigated the worst features of the Stalin regime, particularly in regards to the accession of the bureaucratic ...

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95 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 362

... union conference of the CPSU(B), Nov 1, 1926 in Stalin On the Opposition (Foreign Language Press, Peking 1974) Stalin was aware that his was a new policy. The policy ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 9 16:54:18 PDT 2012

96 [lbo-talk] Stalinism (was Eric Hobsbawm) -- rank: 362

... by Bukharin - would have mitigated the worst features of the Stalin regime, particularly in regards to the accession of the bureaucratic ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Tue Oct 9 04:37:26 PDT 2012

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

... technology transfer that was the important part of the Hitler-Stalin pact. And then when the alliances changed, the USSR was ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Oct 9 01:11:53 PDT 2012

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

... union conference of the CPSU(B), Nov 1, 1926 in Stalin On the Opposition (Foreign Language Press, Peking 1974) Stalin was aware that his was a new policy. The policy ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 8 14:53:02 PDT 2012

99 [lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm -- rank: 156

... a synonym for "I don't like it." Cannon _rejected_ Stalin's concrete policies and established the SWP. The SWP & the ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 14:24:26 PDT 2012

100 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

I have a pre-Stalingrad edition of the Maude translation of War and Peace with a map inside the front and back covers of the the then farthest lines of the Nazi advance into Russia. It still chills my blood to look at it. Sent from my iPad On Oct 8 ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 09:21:19 PDT 2012

101 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

"But as with the Union in the the US Civil War, the long run can be long, bloody, and tricky." Right, and Germany's strategic disadvantage post-1941 shouldn't be confused with their on-the-ground operational capabilities, which were superior to all of Allies until at least 1943 ...

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Author:	Mark DeLucas
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:58:35 PDT 2012

102 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

It's hard for people today to realize how much real gloom there was in the U.S. in 1942 -- and it was more or less realistic gloom. Had the Germans broken through at Stalingrad and at El Alamein -- both real possibilities -- the last 60 years would have been quite different ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:39:15 PDT 2012

103 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 362

... at Stalingrad were key. There is simply no question that Stalin made a very hard and concerted effort to create a ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Mon Oct 8 08:23:54 PDT 2012

104 [lbo-talk] The effect of drones -- rank: 247

... well the history of the lead-up to the Hitler-Stalin pact > (if that's what you're referring to), but ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 8 07:54:53 PDT 2012

105 [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 ...

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