• amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
    28·
    2 months ago

    Friendly reminder that even the CIA thought Stalin wasn’t a dictator: https://archive.org/details/cia-rdp-80-00810-a-006000360009-0_202404/mode/2up

    Even in Stalin’s time there was collective leadership. The Western idea of a dictator within the Communist setup is exaggerated. Misunderstandings on that subject are caused by lack of comprehension of the real nature and organization of the Communist power structure. Stalin, although holding wide powers, was merely the captain of a team and it seems obvious that Khrushchev will be the new captain.

  • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml
    27·
    2 months ago

    Stalin stuffed the soviet beureacracy with so many loyalists that as soon as he died, the soviet union underwent de-stalinization.

  • Pili@lemmygrad.ml
    20·
    2 months ago

    He completely missed the part about revisionists being in the party, and talked about leadership made of “loyalists and conformists”. No attempt at having a good faith argument.

  • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
    17·
    2 months ago

    render the word dictatorship meaningless

    He clearly doesn’t know the Marxist definition of dictatorship. Every state is a dictatorship, it just matters who’s in charge.

    • REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml
      13·
      2 months ago

      It’s not even the “marxist definition”, Marx used the literal meaning of the word. Back in his time, educated folk spoke and understood latin.

      • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        2 months ago

        True.

        “Marxist YouTuber:” stop, you’re going to invalidate the contemporary liberal definition of this word for “bad government thing.”

  • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
    9·
    2 months ago

    Stalin was such an iron fist that killed all opposition no matter how small that as soon as he died his political enemies rose to power.