[lbo-talk] Fwd: c

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Wed Jun 12 08:23:49 PDT 2013


On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:07 AM, Wojtek S wrote:


> RE. "Bottom line, Joe Stalin would [have] loved it. Why should
> anyone have
> to say more?
>
> [WS:] This analogy is plain wrong. Joe Stalin did not have to *gather*
> information. He and his security apparatus could *make stuff up* - no
> matter how absurd - to railroad their opponents to gulags.

And how did the GPU, STASI, and all cb's other little friends get to know who their "opponents" names, addresses, and (pardon the anachronism) internet correspondence?

Shane Mage

"scientific discovery is basically recognition of obvious realities that self-interest or ideology have kept everybody from paying attention to"



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