Wouldn't ya like to be a Stalinist, too? (was: Sedition Act)

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Thu Nov 15 07:43:39 PST 2001


This site is just too beautiful: http://website.lineone.net/~comleague/index.html

It's the bright-red page of The Communist League (UK), decorated with socialist-realistic portraits of Papa Joe, V.I.[1], and even the Hoxa in the best politburo taste. Too bad the site died in 1999, but it still contains wonderful memorabilia like: ------------------------------------------------- GLORY TO THE MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY OF TURKEY

http://website.lineone.net/~comleague/compass/com12901.html

THE LARGEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL GENUINELY MARXIST-LENINIST ORGANISATION IN THE WORLD TODAY IS UNDOUBTEDLY THE 'MARXIST-LENINIST COMMUNIST PARTY' OF TURKEY.

THE COMRADES OF THE MLKP STAND IN THE VANGUARD OF THE FORCES WORKING TO RE-ESTABLISH THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT SABOTAGED BY THE FORCES OF REVISIONISM.

THEY ARE PLAYING A SIMILAR ROLE TO THAT PLAYED BY THE GREAT BOLSHEVIK PARTY IN THE DAYS OF LENIN AND STALIN (...) -------------------------------------------------

[1] There's a left urban legend in Turkey about an educated member of the political police who could read Latin numerals, which was causing him some puzzlement: "I know Lenin the first but who is this Lenin the 6th who wrote these books we confiscated", he kept wondering. In Turkish, the numerals come before royal names.

Hakki Alacakaptan

|| -----Original Message-----

|| From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com

|| [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Kelley

||

||

|| At 06:21 AM 11/11/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote:

||

|| >we read, for ex, Elizabeth Fox Genovese's[1],

|| >>Feminism

|| >>without Illusions, for instance.

|| >

|| >A book a recall rather liking, actually.

||

|| i can't recall much about it, except it ends with something

|| like a "we're

|| different be/c of biology in the end, anyway. (go ahead, Rob,

|| bate (not a

|| sic) me :)

||

|| >It's a long story. G was a sort of Stalinist as a Marxist,

||

|| avoiding ancient list debates and standoffs, could someone

|| explain to me

|| what it means to say "i'm a stalinist" or "she's a stalinist"?

|| is there a,

|| uh, non-pejorative sense of the term?

||

|| kelley

||

||



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