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Did he?

Posted by: Lark on November 26, 1999 at 11:45:11:

In Reply to: Who the hells knows? (better) posted by Stoller on November 24, 1999 at 23:32:56:

: Nice Animal Farm imagery there. Very Cold War...

Which was unintentional...

: Since ALL the Bolsheviks were 'tyrants,' why did Stalin KILL all of the Bolsheviks?

Did he? I seem to recall that first (along with Lenin and Trotsky) he went for the anarchists and the bolsheviks didnt speak out, then he went for the socialists and the bolsheviks didnt speak out, then he went for the social democrats and the bolsheviks didnt speak out, then the Bolsheviks where surprised that when he went for them there was no one left to speak out for them.

: EITHER you or Frenchy are invited to theorize away...

By this you mean perhaps if I where to make a whole host of library references it would construe some kind of legitimacy upon my position in your eyes. A fact is a fact no matter who relates it.

: Well, if YOU can find the part in ANY OF SKINNER'S 20 BOOKS where he recommends 'creamatoria and all-seeing spies,' I'd love to have a look...

As I believe I said before Chomsky was probably being over zealous with that remark but then again he could have been totally wrong unlike you Barry who previously saw fit to defend every word Skinner said and now wish to pursue the same course of action with Trotsky or Lenin I can read the ideas of someone accept some as truth and no the rest is nonsense and the product of their personality etc.

: Chomsky's outrageous claim is on page 178 of the 1987 Pantheon Chomsky Reader...

Is that not a shite boring book that goes into his theory of linguistics at length?



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