Date: Mon, 8 Aug 94 13:26:55 EST From: WCECIL-AT-ucs.indiana.edu Subject: Re: Stalin & World War II On the Stalinism/Marxism front I would like to suggest that while there may be no direct philosophical link between Stalinism and Marx's concept of the revolution, the systematic state torture practiced by Stalin is not a-priori contra Marx. In trying to resists Bourgeois Humanist values one of the values that certainly needs to be examined is the idea that human life is important and has intrinsic value. Also, if we are to have a revolution of the proletariat shouldn't we expect an attempt to forcible reeducate the bourgeois, i.e. us, very much against our wills? I mean by this that we really really like the way we live, and when Mrax calls for the elmination of ideas of family, marriage, consumerism etc. shouldn't we expect this to be just the slightest bit painful for the 100's of millions of converts to western style capitalism? Wes
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