Citas sobre el estalinismo

• Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

  Jay Griffiths

  People, Excess, Spirit

  "Call of the wild" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2007.

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• For me, Stalinism was even a greater philosophical problem than Nazism. Under Nazism, if you were a Jew, you were simply killed, no questions asked, you had nothing to prove. Under Stalinism, of course, most [victims] were on trial for false accusations; most of them were not traitors. There is one interesting feature: that they were tortured or through some kind of blackmail forced to confess to being traitors.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Philosophical, Interesting, Trials

  Fuente: www.believermag.com

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• En mi opinión, el "star system" ha convertido la vida intelectual francesa en algo barato y meretricio. Es como Hollywood. Así pasamos de un absurdo a otro: estalinismo, existencialismo. Lacan, Derrida - algunos de ellos obscenos ( estalinismo), otros simplemente infantiles y ridículos ( Lacan, Derrida). Lo sorprendente, sin embargo, es la pomposidad y la prepotencia, en cada etapa.

  Noam Chomsky

  Stars, Self, Intellectual

  Noam Chomsky, Jean Bricmont, Julie Franck (2010). “Chomsky Notebook”, p.72, Columbia University Press

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• In the case of Stalinism, people actually distorted science, because it was for the good of the Communist Party.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, People, Communist

  Source: www.newstatesman.com

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• El estalinismo está relacionado con el culto a la personalidad y las violaciones masivas de la ley, con la represión y los campos. No hay nada parecido en Rusia y, espero, que nunca vuelva a haberlo...

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Cult Of Personality, Law

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Only the defeat of the proletariat in Germany in 1923 gave the decisive push to the creation of Stalin's theory of national socialism: the downward curve of the revolution gave rise to Stalinism, not to the theory of the permanent revolution, which was first formulated by me in 1905. This theory is not bound to a definite calendar of revolutionary events; it only reveals the world-wide interdependence of the revolutionary process.

  León Trotsky

  Curves, Firsts, Revolution

  Fuente: www.marxists.org

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• All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Political, Style, Important

  ""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• In Stalinism, everybody was potentially a victim in a totally contingent way.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Way, Victim

  Entrevista con Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. Julio de 2004.

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• Es ridículo hablar de libertad en una sociedad dominada por enormes corporaciones. ¿Qué clase de libertad hay dentro de una corporación? Son instituciones totalitarias: recibes órdenes de arriba y puede que se las des a los de abajo. Hay tanta libertad como bajo el estalinismo.

  Noam Chomsky

  Libertad, Poder, Gobierno

  Noam Chomsky (2013). "Cómo funciona el mundo", p.217, Soft Skull Press.

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• Una vez más, se trata de creencias sin pruebas. En el caso del estalinismo, la gente realmente distorsionaba la ciencia, porque era por el bien del Partido Comunista.

  Richard Dawkins

  Party, People, Belief

  Fuente: newrepublic.com

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• The nuclear age has refuted the idea of progress and Marxism has been refuted by Stalinism. Therefore people have returned to the historic religion.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Ideas, People, Age

  Fuente: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• La revolución bolchevique fue una contrarrevolución. Sus primeros movimientos fueron destruir y eliminar toda tendencia socialista que se hubiera desarrollado en el periodo prerrevolucionario. Su objetivo era como ellos decían; no era un gran secreto. Consideraban a la Unión Soviética como una especie de remanso. Eran marxistas ortodoxos, esperaban una revolución en Alemania. Avanzaron hacia lo que ellos mismos llamaron "capitalismo de estado", luego pasaron al estalinismo. Lo llamaron democracia y lo llamaron socialismo. Una afirmación era tan ridícula como la otra.

  Noam Chomsky

  Moving, Goal, Secret

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• Stalinism - or communism - is the only ideology Americans know how to demonise... no one knows what it is, it's just a synonym for the Empire of Evil.

  Chris Kraus

  Evil, Empires, Communism

  Fuente: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's not the possibility of Stalinism in the U.S. that's worrying me, it's the fact that the Stalinist C.P. seems doomed to fail and to bring down with it all the humanitarian tendencies I personally believe in--all the while acting as a mould on which its obverse the fascist mentality is made--and this recent massacre is certainly a sign of Stalinism's weakness not of its strength. None of that has anything to do with Marx's work--but it certainly does influence one's attitude towards a given political party.

  John Dos Passos

  Attitude, Party, Believe

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• Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

  Harold Bloom

  Sympathy, Criticism, Goes On

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• Americans need to understand that they have lost their country. The rest of the world needs to recognize that Washington is not merely the most complete police state since Stalinism, but also a threat to the entire world. The hubris and arrogance of Washington, combined with Washington's huge supply of weapons of mass destruction, make Washington the greatest threat that has ever existed to all life on the planet. Washington is the enemy of all humanity.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Life, Country, Mass Destruction

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• Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

  Dan Quayle

  Refinado

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• I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Worry, Political, Correctness

  "El sicario de Hollywood". Entrevista con Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. 19 de agosto de 2000.

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• It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs – a mass of other germs – and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?

  Victor Serge

  Men, Years, Judging

  "Memoirs of a Revolutionary".

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• Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of. Quick: try to think of a single movie about the horrors of Stalinism. This is not a failure of imagination. This is moral meltdown.

  Mona Charen

  Dream, Thinking, Imagination

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• Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

  Lionel Azul

  Saws, Idolatry, Reefs

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• In Stalinism the tragedy is that its origin is some kind of radical emancipatory project. In the origins you had a kind of workers' uprising; the true enigma is how this project of emancipation went so wrong.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Uprising, Tragedy, Kind

  Entrevista con Dianna Dilworth, www.believermag.com. Julio de 2004.

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• Though Stalinism may have been a needless tragedy for both the Russian people and communism as an ideal, there is the intellectually tantalizing possibility that for the world at large it was, as we shall see, a blessing in disguise.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Blessing, People, Tragedy

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• Stalinism is a pathology of socialism, Hitlerism being the apposite example for capitalism.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Example, Socialism, Pathology

  Robert L. Heilbroner (1980). “Marxism: For and Against”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• El horror del comunismo, del estalinismo, no es que la gente mala haga cosas malas, siempre las hace. Es que la gente buena hace cosas horribles pensando que están haciendo algo grande.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, People, Horror

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