[lbo-talk] Was the USSR a "good try" and valuable counterweight?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 4 12:54:57 PDT 2004


Luke Weiger wrote:


>Doug: I think Ted adequately countered your bizarre claim that tyrannies
>that enjoy some substantial degree of public support aren't really tyrannies
>after all.

Popular support doesn't make a regime wise or just. But in this case, it makes it hard to argue that Soviet power was maintained through mainly repression and fear and not substantial popular consent, as people like you like to claim.

Doug



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