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

[Lisa Frank]

Or was it just a deformed workers' state??? Here we go again,

XOL

On Tue, 4 May 2004 15:54:57 -0400, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 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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Lisa Frank
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