Re: Adolfo as hoax

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On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Chris Faatz <cfaatz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>I think I have to disagree a bit with Jorg here. Stalinism, a term
>that I find misguided, at best (and I'm not a "stalinist"), rested
>not only on the "really existing socialist"/degenerated and deformed
>workers' states, but also on the body of theory that arose out of the
>factional wars of the 20s and 30s in the CPSU and internationally. It's
>still best exemplified in Stalin's _Foundations of Leninism_, and, while
>it's certainly over-mechanistic in some ways, and more authoritarian in
>its understanding of the meaning of the party, its leadership, and of
>democratic centralism, I don't really think that that particular form
>of organizational structure, theory, or even practice are going anywhere.
>They'll be around, and those of us who come out of anti-Stalinist
>traditions will continue to have to deal with them. Maybe now we have
>the opportunity of doing so in a more objective manner than we have in
>the past (God forbid that anyone should suggest *reading* the man!!).
>
>C2
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Just a brief note as I head out to meeting, why not read the man.  An
interesting phenomena I noticed when I used to work at the Rev. Bookstore
here was that Stalin seemed to outsell Lenin and  Marx.  And what's
more the people who bought him were all Trotskyists.  When I would ask,
(cause I thought it was only for purpose to criticize him) I would get
the answer that they thought Stalin was good on a number of issues, in
particular the National Question.  We have a renewed interest in Comrade
Stalin here due to the interaction of this list and are going to study
his works more thoroughly than in the past.

Stalin's works were also stolen more often than others too, by a very
unprincipled group, but that's another story.

Jay Miles / Detroit


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