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1 [lbo-talk] Marxists and marginalists -- rank: 156

Marx himself was both a great admirer and great critic of the classical political economists, especially Adam Smith and David Ricardo. He was generally disparaging of those economists like Bastiat and J.S. Mill (whose work Marx called vulgar economy) who are seen as precursors of the marginalists. On the other ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Mar 21 14:15:14 PDT 2019

2 [lbo-talk] [marxism-thaxis] Corey Robin on "The New Socialists" - NY Times -- rank: 156

... Engels and Marx's idea of socialism. It was not Stalin who put so much State action into Marxist socialism giggles ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sat Aug 25 05:38:32 PDT 2018

3 [lbo-talk] John Deweys Experiments in Democratic Socialism - Jacobin -- rank: 156

... who publicized Lenin's final testament where he had criticized Stalin. Eventually, Eastman went over to the far right, becoming an ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Apr 7 14:31:54 PDT 2018

4 [lbo-talk] When New York City Was the Capital of American Communism -- rank: 247

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/opinion/new-york-american-communism.html The Brooklyn-born playwright and critic Lionel Abel, who cut his political teeth in left-wing circles in Greenwich Village in the 1930s, remarked in his memoirs that during the Depression years, New York City went to Russia ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Oct 21 08:12:20 PDT 2017

5 [lbo-talk] Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlins Purposes (NY Ti mes) -- rank: 312

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/world/europe/russia-kim-philby-spy-defector.html Even in Death, the Spy Kim Philby Serves the Kremlin s Purposes By ANDREW HIGGINS OCT. 1, 2017 A new portrait of the British double agent Kim Philby, second from right, at a state art gallery ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Tue Oct 3 09:03:53 PDT 2017

6 [lbo-talk] The scientific status of psychoanalysis -- rank: 156

... young Lev Vygotsky and the young Alexander Luria. Later, under Stalin, it was basically banned, and so remained, pretty much into ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jul 29 12:15:19 PDT 2017

7 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] Re: What Caused the Holodomor? -- rank: 439

... were not socialist, but so fucking what! We owe to Stalin that the "official" language of most of Europe and the U.S. is not German! Lou has to hate Stalin and hold to a utopian version of socialism because of ...

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Author:	Cox, Carrol
Date:	Sat Mar 25 16:06:54 PDT 2017

8 [lbo-talk] The Young Karl Marx review intelligent communist bromance (The Guard ian) -- rank: 156

Peter Bradshaw Sunday 12 February 2017 15.30 EST Last modified on Sunday 12 February 2017 15.32 EST Raoul Peck is the Haitian film-maker who has an Oscar nomination this year with his James Baldwin documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Now he comes to Berlin with this sinewy ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sun Feb 12 15:29:56 PST 2017

9 [lbo-talk] Those who claim chimps have culture do not understand the full nature of culture. -- rank: 156

... game which fucks up understanding > of > the world. Both Trotsky & Stalin are as irrelevant as Antony & r Octavius > and Antony. And ...

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Author:	robert wood
Date:	Tue Nov 8 17:12:13 PST 2016

10 [lbo-talk] Those who claim chimps have culture do not understand the full nature of culture. -- rank: 156

... game which fucks up understanding of the world. Both Trotsky & Stalin are as irrelevant as Antony & r Octavius and Antony. And ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Nov 7 13:58:41 PST 2016

11 [lbo-talk] Pavlov, Soviet psychology, and Harry K. Wells -- rank: 156

This came up as part of a thread in an FB group, in which I tam a member. The discussion turned to the role of the great Russian physiologist, Ivan Pavlov, in the Soviet Union. As I pointed out: Pavlov attacked the Bolsheviks. He intended to leave Russia after the October ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Sep 9 10:54:25 PDT 2016

12 [lbo-talk] (no subject) -- rank: 156

... 14 2016 The remorse of a dissident: Alexander Zinoviev on Stalin and the dissolution of the USSR Sent from my iPhone

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Aug 18 17:19:06 PDT 2016

13 [lbo-talk] [marxism-thaxis] Classic Soviet philosophical debates -- rank: 541

Iike Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 29, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > Some years ago, I summarized the 1920's debate between the Deborinists and the Mechanists > along the following lines: > > Probably the most important debate that drew the attention of Soviet philosophers ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed May 4 14:35:06 PDT 2016

14 [lbo-talk] Classic Soviet philosophical debates -- rank: 541

Some years ago, I summarized the 1920's debate between the Deborinists and the Mechanists along the following lines: Probably the most important debate that drew the attention of Soviet philosophers during the early years of the USSR was the debate between the "mechanists" and the "dialecticians" or Deborinists. This debate ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Fri Apr 29 20:25:34 PDT 2016

15 [lbo-talk] New Book: "American Nuremburg" by Rebecca Gordon -- rank: 156

American Nuremberg: The U.S. Officials Who Should Stand Trial for Post-9/11 War Crimes Hardcover – April 5, 2016 by <http://www.amazon.com/Rebecca-Gordon/e/B001KCIFYU/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1>Rebecca Gordon (Author) [] No subject is more hotly debated than the extreme measures that our government ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Tue Apr 5 09:58:34 PDT 2016