[lbo-talk] Josef Stalin: Strange Attractor

[Chris Doss]

Because people use him as a standard for defining their own and other's 
political positions. He's also very useful in ad hominem arguments: "You're 
in favor of collectivized agriculture? You know who else was in favor of 
that, don't you? STALIN! You're just like STALIN!"


>Given the nodal points of discussion that develop
>rapidly and spread with a joyous promiscuity - as
>sunflowers take over a field - around the questions of
>who Stalin was, what he did, and what motivated him it
>appears that he’s a seriously strange attractor for
>many LBO’ers.
>
>Anyone care to offer a theory on why this so?
>
>DRM
>
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