> Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>One more thing you liberal democrats forget is that Stalin was quite popular.
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>What implication re Stalin should liberal democrats and others draw from this?
It makes it harder to describe Stalinism as tyranny, and if he could have won an election, it makes it harder to criticze him on democratic grounds at all, if your definition of democracy is that the government should respond to popular will.
Doug