[lbo-talk] Dolan on Stalin

Peter Lavelle untimely_thoughts at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 21 13:01:06 PDT 2005


Well Chris, in this case I have to disagree. Stalin didn't create an authoritarian regime - he merely realized it. Stalin's political regime and what is called Stalinism was created by the party he belonged to and the ideology that party believed in and enacted. Stalin really created little or invented much, he was a functionary that represented the ultimate praxis the ideology he and the party thought to be faith revealed. "Distortions" of Marxist-Leninism is a smoke screen for an idea that was the the antithesis of modernity.

Interesting enough, the ultimate Kremlin insider Vladislav Surkov appears to agree...... (ref recent Spiegel interview).

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> With a caveat about making parallels across cultural
> lines, the situation will be comparable when a US
> politician dies and there is a stampede at the
> funeral
> to see the Dead God, killing hundreds.
>
> As for Luke's point -- causally speaking, it's not
> so
> much that authoritarianism socialisms gave birth to
> Stalins as that Stalins gave birth to authoritarian
> socialisms.
>
> --- Charles Brown <cbrown at michiganlegal.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > ^^^^
> >
> > CB: It wouldn't be weird times or strange guys if
> > they were Americans.
> > "Every" successful politician in U.S. history has
> > built a personality cult.
> > It's the American way. Personality cult =
> > Celebrity.
> >
> > Here's a picture of George Bush kissing bavies and
> > reading stories to
> > children while Washington burns.
> >
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