[lbo-talk] Eric Hobsbawm

Chuck Grimes cagrimes42 at gmail.com
Tue Oct 2 14:13:52 PDT 2012



> This is _both_ a real question _and_ an aggressive (argumentative)
> question:
>
> What, in this context, does "Stalinism" mean?
>
> Carrol
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It means following the party line, right, wrong, or loathsome. It means accepting a mental discipline, an authoritarianism to maintain that line in the face of facts, reasons, argument, and analysis to the contrary. The entire US political establishment and the capitalist class it promotes and protects is Stalinist of the neoliberal variety. Goldman Sacksism?

CG



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