[lbo-talk] Surpassing the Gulag in Scale

[Jim Devine]

As should have been clear in context, I don't think the labor in labor
camps is or was dignified. But  it's better than living in a cage, no?

On 6/20/05, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> At the risk of sound like Mike P., "dignity of labor"
> was not exactly what was offered the zeks in the
> Gulag. Skim Conquest's book on Kolyma or
> Solzhentisyn's Gulag Archipelago; if those accounts
> are too tainted for a leftist audience, try
> Antonov-Ovsykenko's In the Time of Stalin of Ginzburgs
> Into the Whirlwind. jks

me:
> > FWIW, people in the Gulags got a chance to work
> > (which, it's said,
> > gives one dignity -- but at least gives one some
> > variety and social
> > contact). At Gitmo, if I'm not mistaken, the inmates
> > are held in
> > cages.
> >
> > JD

-- 
Jim Devine
"Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let
people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.