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If those who defend mass murderers can ever be funny, this from Oliver Kamm's site is funny:
Ball believes that Mao and Stalin have been unfairly maligned by us bourgeois commentators. He insists: "Like Mao, the negative features of [Stalin's] rule have been greatly exaggerated. The successes have been ignored."To which Oliver replied with one word: no.Mr Ball immediately wrote to me under the drearily familiar heading (of which more below) "re: libellous comments concerning myself". He writes, at great length, that he is "absolutely enraged" to read my post:
You are clearly attempting to compare me to the Nazis and to David Irving-the holocaust denier whose work you discuss on your blog. It is perfectly obvious that you are only making these libellous statements against myself because you are aware I am a communist and hence will be reluctant to use capitalist courts to sue. I don't have the luxury that you posess of libelling anyone I happen to disagree with. When I make comments about living figures I have to make damn sure I can back up what I am saying rather than just publishing a pack of lies.Before you published your libel did it ever occur to you to email me and ask me why I uphold Stalin and Mao and oppose the view they were as bad as the Nazis?
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Joshua
October 5th, 2007 7:30pmNeil Clark has obviously been missing one of his balls for years. Perhaps it has just turned up? This ball and Clark certainly do have a lot in common. I realise that Kamm has every reason to despise Clarkie, but I do hope he can find it in his heart to do the decent thing here and pass on the e-mail address.