Comments on: The Left’s Gulag Fetish http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:35:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mutantfrog http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-21934 Mutantfrog Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:50:00 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-21934 Well, Mugabe compared himself to Hitler. That pretty much opens it up. Well, Mugabe compared himself to Hitler. That pretty much opens it up.

]]> By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-21645 Curzon Wed, 31 Aug 2005 22:43:47 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-21645 Further thoughts: it doesn't have to be the same. I call Mugabe a Hitler, but he hasn't exterminated 6 million Jews and 62 million in war. To put it one way: it's the thought that counts. Further thoughts: it doesn’t have to be the same. I call Mugabe a Hitler, but he hasn’t exterminated 6 million Jews and 62 million in war.

To put it one way: it’s the thought that counts.

]]> By: Chirol http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-21261 Chirol Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:55:53 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-21261 Curzon: Of course there are many parallels, especially in terms of people who are detained and the reasons for detention, but considering political prisoners are hardly anything new nor are terrible conditions, I'd say the things that most characterized the gulag system were the slave labor and massive amount of people who died, both not happening in Russia today. Thus the comparison. Of course what's happening now is horrid, but until Khordovsky is out making roads in Siberia, I'll withhold such comparisons =) Curzon: Of course there are many parallels, especially in terms of people who are detained and the reasons for detention, but considering political prisoners are hardly anything new nor are terrible conditions, I’d say the things that most characterized the gulag system were the slave labor and massive amount of people who died, both not happening in Russia today. Thus the comparison. Of course what’s happening now is horrid, but until Khordovsky is out making roads in Siberia, I’ll withhold such comparisons =)

]]> By: Curzon http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-20740 Curzon Tue, 30 Aug 2005 17:06:36 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-20740 Oh Sir Ignatius, how you twist and turn my words! I truly believe Russia's prisons to be truly horrible, and from what I've read, breeding grounds for nasty strains of TB and AIDS, compounded by appalling medial treatment and subhuman conditions. Although I agree that the Left has a gulag fetish, and the intentions of the group in questions, whether to gain international or domestic opinion, are unknown, this doesn't strike me as out of the ordinary. Oh Sir Ignatius, how you twist and turn my words! I truly believe Russia’s prisons to be truly horrible, and from what I’ve read, breeding grounds for nasty strains of TB and AIDS, compounded by appalling medial treatment and subhuman conditions. Although I agree that the Left has a gulag fetish, and the intentions of the group in questions, whether to gain international or domestic opinion, are unknown, this doesn’t strike me as out of the ordinary.

]]> By: Mutantfrog http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-20670 Mutantfrog Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:04:40 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-20670 I mean, I have no idea how bad the prisons are now, but how could you possibly talk about prisons in Russia with at least mentioning the word 'gulag' at some point? I mean, I have no idea how bad the prisons are now, but how could you possibly talk about prisons in Russia with at least mentioning the word ‘gulag’ at some point?

]]> By: Mutantfrog http://cominganarchy.com/2005/08/30/the-lefts-gulag-fetish/comment-page-1/#comment-20668 Mutantfrog Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:03:48 +0000 http://www.cominganarchy.com/?p=1052#comment-20668 Well, considering that the gulags were in Russia it seems like it makes kind of a logical point of comparison for prisons in Russia today. Of course Well, considering that the gulags were in Russia it seems like it makes kind of a logical point of comparison for prisons in Russia today. Of course

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