A few yrs. ago I was pleased to send Joseph above some cites on Chechnya, including Lieven on the first Chechen war, after picking up his communist publication at Modern Times.Has a sharp critique of Trotskyism in 2 issues recently.
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CB>...I think a main flaw in the pattern of your posting is that you send a lot of undigested , straight up, old style, right wing anti-communist stuff.
We've been over this terrain before. Once again on, as LDT used to say...Anti-Stalinist leftists, many who are former Communists, I base the bulk of my anti-Communism on include these texts, none in the Robert Conquest vein, if that is your measure of right-wing anti-communism. Paulo Spriono, (PCI official historian) "Stalin and the European Communists, " Verso books. "The Alternative in Eastern Europe, " by R. Bahro. "Dictatorship Over Needs, " by students of Lukacs, Agnes Heller, Ferenc Feher and Gyorgy Markus. Various works by Victor Serge. "The Stalinist Legacy, " edited by Tariq Ali, Lynne Rienner publishers reprint of the Penguin Books edition."The Evolution of Communism, " by Adam Westoby. Westoby was a comrade of my pal, Tim Wohlforth, a ex-Trotskyist who has written on political cults in a book published by M.E. Sharpe. Tim on Cuba, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/portside/message/514
BTW, aybe the Oscar Wilde quote is from, "The Soul Of Man Under Socialism," ???
Michael Pugliese