--- andie nachgeborenen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree with your reservations about the term > Stalinism, I just don't have a better one. > > I agree with about the good Czar with under > Stalinism, but that is not an example of socialist > democracy -- I don't think you think it is either. > > jks
Incidentally, in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq with all its "Saddam is a brutal, hated dictator, so of course nobodt likes him and we will be greeted as liberators" rhetoric, I kept thinking of Stalin. Stalin was not hated (by most people). He was worshipped (by most people). Being a brutal dictator does not necessarily mean that you are hated or seen as illegitimate by the people over whom you are dictating, especially if their historical experience tells them that power is absolute and arbitrary. For all I know, Saddam's ruthlessness may have bought him street cred as a tough guy you don't mess with. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
