>From: David Mandl <dmandl at panix.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Worker's Paradise (was: Gulag query)
>Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:41:25 -0400
Whether you have unanimity in a dictatorship
>through intimidation or in a "democracy" through more subtle means
>(corporate-controlled media, advertising, etc.),
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In USSR, neither. It was because of the Brezhnev social contract (don't mess
with the state and we will take care of you) and the acceptance of Soviet
ideology/ideals by most of the population.
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And even if the Soviet
>population was really, truly in favor of the '56 and '68 invasions, surely
>that didn't make it right to send the tanks in?
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Nope.
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