anti-stalinism

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So how do the folks who were harrasssed by the KGB feel about the past and
the present under KGB-er Putin?  Are you saying there were no labor camps
and stuff like that?  Just a mirror-image of the McCarthy era?  'Course that
was bad enough.

And what's up wid you?  Are you still stuck?  I hope you're getting paid to
be stuck.

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: anti-stalinism


>
> >    I see you are still placing totalitarianism in scare quotes.
>
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>
> Carrol presumably puts 'totalitarianism' in scare quotes because there is
no
> such animal as the Arendtian conception of the total state stifling any
and
> all dissent, at any and all levels, at the service of ideology. This is a
> caracture. It didn't even happen under Stalin.
>
> In my opinion, calling the post-Stalin USSR totalitarian is iffy at best.
> (And I know people who were harrassed by the KGB -- as well as people who
> worked for the KGB. They are everywhere in the FSU. The owner of a nice
> art-fart cafe in downtown Moscow is ex-KGB.)
>
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