anti-stalinism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Jul 13 12:51:09 PDT 2002


joanna bujes wrote:
>
> At 11:42 AM 07/13/2002 -0400, Michael Pugliese wrote:
> >Sad that Frank asnd Joanna suffer under the
> >illusion that left anti-Stalinism is a clever ruse of the Kapitalist
> >Empire.

Anti-Stalinism makes about as much sense as opposing making animal sacrifices to Zeus. The U.S. or other nations may well slide into some form of either revolutionary or counter-revolutionary "totalitarianism," but in the former case it won't be "stalinist" and in the latter case it won't be "fascist." The use of those terms increasingly becomes a sort of intellectual/political masturbation, and while physical masturbation may enhance life, intellectual masturbation is a serious threat to mental health.

Carrol



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