> So be it. It's a big tent here on LBO, really, with so many
open-minded people committed to irony & skepticism. :)
Sure, let's be open minded about Stalinism and skeptical of critiques about it, those a notable Stalinist virtues.
I saw a picture from the Skokie-Nazi case with a bunch of US Nazis in brownshirts gathered under a big banner that sais, "Free Speech." Now that's what I call irony.
--jks