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    12 days ago

    Being a Marxy is pretty hard. Most people don’t even listen to what your actual economical stances are, they just assume you’re an insane Stalinist.

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        Anyone who has ever read stalin knows…

        People who use “stalinist” in a derogatory manner is like using the word “field medic” derogatorily a complete and utter idiot.

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          The more I read about Stalin the more I understand that the average westerner pretty much owes their lives and any quality of life to the USSR while it was under his collective leadership. As per their liberal paradigms and their Great Man understanding of history every one of their homes should have a shrine to him (I want to make it clear, though, I don’t have such metaphysical sentiments).

          https://redsails.org/concessions/

          The term “stalinist”: it’s the equivalent of considering someone who understands and accepts Einstein’s theories of general and special relativity as Einsteinist rather than as someone who accepts the science of the physics explained by it (parallels with the science of marxism).

          https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9961907/7400975

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        So far I have to agree with drunk guy. Given the vast amount of theory, the historical reports from diverse sources I have consumed, the guy seems not to have made any serious mistakes. Especially portant because he never ruled the ussr alone but was head of a party (not even willingly at times).

        I think the sole reason why stalin is made out to be red hitler by the west is because he is both an exceptional example for leadership and an avid theoretitian.

        Had they not discredited him so thoroughly, he would have probably become the next jesus for lack of a better word. (I mean that in the perspective of an atheist that jesus probably existed and was a revolutionary figure of the time)