[PEN-L:29358] RE: Re: RE: Re: Re: Max Elbaum To Speak In Sacramen to On So cialMovement History

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

Title: RE: [PEN-L:29356] Re: RE: Re: Re: Max Elbaum To Speak In Sacramento On So cialMovement History

I don't know about these specific cases, so I'd like to hear what the ATC people say about them.

In any event, these points don't answer my question: is there a diffference between the "Stalinophobia" that Louis decries and (say) the view that Stalin was a bloody dictator who helped establish the rule by a new stratum or class that would fight like hell to preserve their power (as with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 or the suppression of many strikes by unions) and (among other things) killed a lot of Bolsheviks, perhaps more than the Tsar did.

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

I asked:
> >what is "Stalinophobia"? does its rejection mean that we
> should embrace
> >"Stalinophilia"?

Louis responded:
> Stalinophobia? I would consider the following as signs of the
> problem in ATC, a publication that is put out by Solidarity and amounts
> to a house  organ even though they say it is formally independent:
>
> 1. Giving prominence to Branka Magas, a Yugoslav 
> intellectual who backed
> NATO bombing.
>
> 2. Slandered the FARC in Colombia as killers of indigenous people.
>
> 3. ATC editor Susie Weismann is a frothing-at-the-mouth
> Stalinophobe who
> frequently invites Stephen Schwartz on her radio show, even
> though he spied
> on the left during the 1980s on behalf of Edwin Meese.