Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 18:18:05 +0300 (EET DST)
Subject: M-TH: death, and thaxis (was: no more...)


Ralph, & others too!

1.

I'm afraid that Stalin, in his own perverse way, does belong to this
list as object of serious study. I mean that despite of the fact that
he never was such a qualified marxist thinker as Lukacs or Marcuse he
does have a questionable honor to be the greatest error marxism ever
made, so to speak. As a bad example he surely belongs to nation of
undeads but horrors stalinists have caused should not be kept under
cover. There is a (hollow, you might say) parallel between French
Revolution & its terror and October Revolution & stalinism. These
should not be forgotten.

But mutual and annoying flaming (hope this is right word) that is
about to begin, or so it seems, is forbidden:

No "you fascist", "you stalinist" on this list!


2.

In order to lighten the atmosphere I can tell that there's good news,
too. I mean that you discovered a new dimension to this list:

> Remember, there are only two things certain in life: death and thaxis.

It surely refers to thanatological praxis?

Jukka



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