I think "Stalinophobia" means an unreasonable refusal to support Milosovic
and an incorrect refusal to recognize that the Yugoslav regime from 1990-98
represented a last bastion of socialism. What this has to do with anything
that is relevant today, I don't know. I personally regard Stalin as a
butcher and a tyrant, and Stalinism, as a social system, as wicked and
contemptible, but the struggle against Stalinism, understood as support for
regimes like the fSU before Gorby, China, and the ex-bloc nations, is not
exactly front and cxenter in today's politics. jks
what is "Stalinophobia"? does its rejection mean that we should embrace
"Stalinophilia"?
Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Proyect [mailto:lnp3@xxxxxxxxx]
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.
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