Comments on: Today’s Headlines http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/23/todays-headlines-142/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JF http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/23/todays-headlines-142/comment-page-1/#comment-31047 JF Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:07:39 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/2007/04/23/todays-headlines-142/#comment-31047 I never thought I'd see the Sun redbaiting ... Tony Avella? But when I think about it, I can easily imagine some of these commissars spouting populist rhetoric just before being chauffeured to their dachas in Sevastopol, while their constituents stand on food lines in the cold. Not Trotskyite so much as Stalinist, in the economic sense rather than the civil-liberties sense. I never thought I’d see the Sun redbaiting … Tony Avella? But when I think about it, I can easily imagine some of these commissars spouting populist rhetoric just before being chauffeured to their dachas in Sevastopol, while their constituents stand on food lines in the cold.

Not Trotskyite so much as Stalinist, in the economic sense rather than the civil-liberties sense.

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