tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post82667344760608627..comments2024-03-28T06:49:24.930-04:00Comments on International Political Economy at the University of North Carolina: Eric Hobsbawm, RIPThomas Oatleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14092437150746625670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-22927808312336224542012-10-18T20:08:52.880-04:002012-10-18T20:08:52.880-04:00I'm about to read a Stalin book after realizin...I'm about to read a Stalin book after realizing surveillence is a major part of the budget wedge in a century to stop WMDs. And it was $1. Russia was the #2 intact country; but for behind #1 USA. A nuclear war might've retarded the USA more but we want QoL as goal and is a good means to an ends too. You know, Obama fought hard for capping student interest rates. I hope students vote for him; the Romney team pulled out resources so should be easy to get the State. My research hopes need researchers and a budget and I trust Obama to provide tax revenue necessary to bridge the decade or so it takes for the best researchers to get profitable.The Keystone Garternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-66274870104650790752012-10-07T02:19:05.039-04:002012-10-07T02:19:05.039-04:00The Bolshevik "revolution" had its germ ...The Bolshevik "revolution" had its germ in the anti-democratic sentiment following their defeat in the 1917 Constituent Assembly elections. Lenin dissolved the assembly, and thus any pretense of democracy, in January of 1918 when it was clear the other parties did not like his idea of a Soviet Republic. <br /><br />For the Bolshevik Revolution to have had a better, less totalitarian outcome, it would have required the absence of Bolsheviks.JRnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-66287154801932069512012-10-04T11:39:18.431-04:002012-10-04T11:39:18.431-04:00I must say I'm with Robert Conquest on this on...I must say I'm with Robert Conquest on this one.Kindred Winecoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14330671232391851377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-17785490679894449162012-10-04T10:56:11.149-04:002012-10-04T10:56:11.149-04:00"...the project that made Stalin inevitable....."...the project that made Stalin inevitable...."<br /><br /><br />I don't think Stalin was inevitable. Certainly the Bolshevik revolution cd have taken a somewhat diff direction than it did, no?<br /><br />As I mentioned on CT, I was re-reading recently the chapter in Age of Extremes about the 'golden age' of postwar capitalism and its decline. (For a post that I never finished or posted. Maybe I will post it eventually.) I also spent about a half-hr recently re-reading bits of Age of Revolution, the 1st of the famous trilogy. First read it a long time ago and didn't remember it v. well. Worth reading or re-reading i think, not that you have time for that right now. LFChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13551197682770555147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1331441403058020963.post-17055111457366607462012-10-02T03:30:45.933-04:002012-10-02T03:30:45.933-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com