On Aug 11, 2008, at 1:55 AM, Jim Straub wrote:
> A quibble: how on earth is our union 'stalinist'?
I think the phrase - and I didn't coin it - is "Stalinism without the ideology." I.e., a centralized cult of personality. But it's also been described as a cult of personality without the personality. The point of both is that it's an increasingly top-down antidemocratic structure.