anti-stalinism

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I haven't been following this closely but I do know that out here in the
Rube Gallery, regular folk who rarely utter the words Communism, and
especially Capitalism, are now uttering away.  A few "simple truths" about
the destruction caused by decades of unquestioned religious acceptance of
anti-Communism will have to address the abuses of Communism, which I see as
being simular to the abuses of all "isms", ie, the concentration of
unbridled power.  It certainly struck an aching, long fiddled with chord
when I was reading Blinded by The Right last night and he writes of Grover
Norquist(god what a S lime, among slimes) that he had a prominent portrait
of Lenin in the living room and used to quote his "Probe with bayonets,
looking for weakness" thingy.  And these guys remind me of no one more than
that Charlie Betz guy who was running the Greens Gathering I attended in
'91.  Both sides a bunch of privilaged whiny-babies who would gladly cause
death and mayhem to humankind to make themselves feel better about childhood
issues.  In a true Democracy the economic system would be a hodge-podge.
The window of opportunity we are now faced with is the obvious message that
economic systems have costs and that those costs are paid by all.
Therefore, a high social floor should be the first thing funded by the
economic system.  As they say in AA, "Keep it simple".  And "capture the
culture" with love and respect for Creation.

----- Original Message -----
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: anti-stalinism


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> 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
>
>