You’re not even trying to have a conversation though, for that you’d actually have to read what people say, rather than just going down the list of pre-prepared thought terminating cliches.
Most Marxists do not “love” Stalin. We understand his role as the first long-term leader of the world’s first long-term socialist state, appreciate his synthesizing of Marxism and Leninism into Marxism-Leninism, and uphold him as a genuine Marxist that, while not free from sin, absolutely has been systematically demonized by the west in a manner that distorts reality and erases the far worse nature of his contemporaries, such as Churchill. Mao famously gave him a final “score” of 70% good, 30% bad, a “score” that is generally orbited around by the various Marxist-Leninist orgs worldwide.
Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
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That thought terminating cliche doesn’t even make sense in this context
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Are you just going down a list of rote lines?
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You’re not even trying to have a conversation though, for that you’d actually have to read what people say, rather than just going down the list of pre-prepared thought terminating cliches.
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What’s the next rote line on your list?
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Most Marxists do not “love” Stalin. We understand his role as the first long-term leader of the world’s first long-term socialist state, appreciate his synthesizing of Marxism and Leninism into Marxism-Leninism, and uphold him as a genuine Marxist that, while not free from sin, absolutely has been systematically demonized by the west in a manner that distorts reality and erases the far worse nature of his contemporaries, such as Churchill. Mao famously gave him a final “score” of 70% good, 30% bad, a “score” that is generally orbited around by the various Marxist-Leninist orgs worldwide.
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Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Dialectical and Historical Materialism
History of the CPSU (B)
The Foundations of Leninism
Marxism and the National Question
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it’s a surprise anyone could take in any sort of information with a mind that tightly closed.