On Aug 12, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
> ... Stalinist. The term is meaningless...There is one way it could
> be made meaningful...It would mean all those groups and
> persons who actively engaged in or supported the Moscow Purge Trials.
The verdict of the Moscow Frameup Trial, condemning its principal defendant, remained established law in the soi-disant "Soviet Union" up to its very end. So even Carrol Cox agrees that all supporters of the soi-disant "Soviet Union" and of the political systems modeled upon it can and should be described quite accurately as Stalinists.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos