[lbo-talk] Re: Worker's Paradise (was: Gulag query)

[David Mandl]

>From: "Chris Doss" <itschris13 at hotmail.com>
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Gulag query
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 08:34:49 -0400
>
>>Wow.  The activists who did time in mental hospitals (including people I
>>knew) might disagree with this.
>>
>>     --Dave.
>
>Such people were not everyday Soviets. Everyday Soviets were not activists.
>They were also usually rather pro-state. The crushing of the Hungarian
>uprising and the invasion of Afghanistan were both supported by the bulk of
>the Soviet population. Sakharov was about as representative of public mood
>in the Brezhnev era as Chomsky is of American, possibly less so.

Holy cow...an actual Soviet apologist/revisionist.

The bulk of the American population supports the invasion of Iraq--I 
guess that's OK, then.  And I didn't realize that it's OK to put 
people with non-mainstream views (even less representative than 
Chomsky's!) in mental hospitals.  It's like an old cartoon in the 
situationist zine "Spectacular Times": Some stuffy old British 
banker-type in a suit sniffs, "I don't know what these protestors are 
grumbling about--I've lived in this country for 63 years, and I have 
never ONCE been beaten up by the police."

    --Dave.

-- 
Dave Mandl
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