> And do you hear Tariq going on now about the crimes
> of Stalin? No. I
> hear him going on, usually quite eloquently, about
> the crimes of U.S.
> imperialism.
Doug, do you intend by this statement that since the Soviet Union is no longer "alive" that we should just stop talking about it...that it is useless to discuss what happened there and the model upon which it was built? Did Stalin give rise to the undemocratic nature of the Soviet Union or did the undemocratic nature of the Soviet Union give rise to Stalin? Isn't it important to study and discuss this phenomena whether we defend that model (or, at least, some aspects of it) or a radically different model of socialism/communism ?
Thomas
===== "The tradition of all the dead generations
weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living"
-Karl Marx
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