[lbo-talk] Re: WWP & KPRF

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Mon Jun 2 13:39:25 PDT 2003


Your capacity for demogogy, never fails to astound me.

These were the cited footnotes in Taylor's long piece specific to Anpilov. Did you refute them?

Red-Bait? What is communist about the KPRF? Did I see a list of demands advocating workers control of the means of production? Or a restoration of bureaucratic collectivism, where privileged nomenklatura "own" the state that owns the means of production?

I don't have time to track down survey data, but, I suspect that anti-semitism on a mass level is at historically relatively low levels, nowhere near majority active or passive opinion. However, the ability of the "national-patriotic" extremes of the right asnd "left" to mobilize electoral support, or synagogue bombings and defacements, on a anti-semitic, anti-Chechen platform should not be undestimated.

"Blacks on the Mississppi River Eatin' de Water melon, " <> your armchair psychoanalysis of my supposed obsessions with an insinuation I'm the racist??? Beneath contempt, for someone uttering such trash on the Roma and Chechens. 12. http://www.leviy.ru/news/live_op/kommunizm/kprf/May/21.htm 13. 1997 report on antisemitism published on http://www.ort.org/jpr/AWRweb/Europe/russia.htm 14. "The Stalin block: Labour Russia, Officers - for the USSR" http://elections.ru:8080/duma/others/stal.html 15. "The Escalation of Antisemitic Violence in Russia", August 1999 published by Union of Councils for Soviet Jewry

Additional sources, for others un-biased by an inordinate sense of self regard and a bullying manner. 'Russian Fascism: Traditions, Tendencies, Movements, " by Stephen D. Shenfield, M.E. Sharpe, London and NYC, 2001.

"The Nature of Fascism, " by Roger Griffin.

Alexander Yanov has a few articles, one published by the IGS @ UCB on Red-Brown tendencies in Russian politics.

"National-Patriotic Organizations in Russia: History, Ideology and Extremist Tendencies, " in English, Russian version, from Institut eksperimental' noi sotsiologi, Moscow, 1996.

"The Black Hundreds, " by Walter Laqueur, Penguin Books/Viking, 1993.



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