[lbo-talk] Gulag query

[Nathan Newman]

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From: BrownBingb at aol.com
>CB:  It seems to me that the purpose of this recurrent thread on Stalin,
Stalinism,
>mass killings, the Gulag is to contribute toward making a judgment as to
what
>we or one on the left is "for" today and in the future. Does the history of
>socialist systems that have actually existed  prove that practice of
Marxist
>ideology inherently leads to something that is not OK  ? That is , of
course,
>the bourgeois claim. Or maybe Justin suggests that we need a heavy
>dose of liberal ideology combined with Marxism to avoid things being not-OK
?

No- part of the argument is over whether the Soviet Union and Stalinism even
constitutes "Marxism" and an attempt to distinguish between those claiming
that such is necessary to socialist history and those who see it as a
betrayal of the working class.

-- Nathan newman