03-18-2019, 06:45 PM
(03-18-2019, 12:42 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: While I agree with your overall point, here, this falls into the false narrative that communism is somehow responsible to Stalin's bullshit. Stalin's rule wasn't a communist one because he was a dictator and communism as an ideology requires democracy.
I'd put more credence in this argument if every single "communist" government on Earth follows the exact same pattern. They are all a one party autocracy and they almost all invariably fall under the sway of a single leader. Communism as strictly defined by Marx has never existed because it's completely unworkable in my opinion. In any event, there is a extremely well established track record of what happens when a government becomes "communist" and Stalin's USSR is right in that wheelhouse.
