• lugal@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Did he even write theory? I mean, Lenin and Trotsky did but did Stalin?

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      10 months ago

      Stalin did some writing, but depending on which tankie you ask, it’s either REVOLUTIONARY AND ASTOUNDING WORK THAT IS UNFAIRLY OVERLOOKED, or just verbose rehashing of Lenin with an (extra) dash of authoritarianism.

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      10 months ago

      I believe his contribution was the idea that a dictatorship of the prolitariate is untenable, and that the state needs a single leader in order to achieve Marxism.

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        10 months ago

        Sounds like tankies will love it and Marx would have hated it

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        10 months ago

        He might have written that but it was Lenin who ended all dissent within the CP and put a single person (Lenin) in control. Arguably the situation at the time was so chaotic and dangerous that this was the only way to prevent the collapse of the revolution.

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      10 months ago

      He did. It contradicts basic tenants of Marxism, but he did write theory.

      Edit: tenets. That’s embarrassing. Thanks.

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      10 months ago

      Stalin did a lot. But most of all he did killing of innocent people.