[PEN-L:29355] RE: Re: Re: Max Elbaum To Speak In Sacramento On So cialMovement History

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L:29353] Re: Re: Max Elbaum To Speak In Sacramento On SocialMovement History

what is "Stalinophobia"? does its rejection mean that we should embrace "Stalinophilia"?

Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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> Jurriaan:
> >If that is the case, I wonder why he isn't a member of the Fourth
> >International, Solidarity and dozens of other groups who
> argue the same
> >thing. The reason why those groups in the 1970s etc. failed
> politically
> >was precisely because they thought that Marxism (whatever that is
> >conceived to be - opinions differ strongly) had to be the basis of
> >political unity. Most of the groups who stopped believing
> this and just
> >concentrated on effective socialist political action have
> recorded strong
> >growth, at least here in Europe.
>
> Since I regard the FI and Solidarity as Stalinophobic,
> especially around
> the question of Yugoslavia, I could not join, but I certainly
> believe that
> they are doing good work all in all.
>