the_dunk_tank

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I wonder what that shark lemmy instance is up to. (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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edit: GUYS fuck stalin and fuck tankies, period. i understand that this community is more sensitive than most to pro-stalinist vibes, and i apologize for unintentionally twinging that nerve, but you need stop calling each other (and me) slurs.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

In brief, while I could get into the morality of purging cadres - whether we’re talking expulsion from the party or all the way up to getting killed - who didn’t actually do anything to deserve it, in the end I’m not really interested in passing any sort of moral judgement of Stalin. I’m only concerned about how that affected how that affected the Soviet project.

The purges were far less damaging than the genocidal war in which so many good Communists were martyred. The principled and fearless Communists rushed to the frontlines while the opportunists and cowards find compelling reasons to be stationed in Siberia. The war pretty such self-selected the most worthy to die and the least worthy to survive and drive the party off a cliff decades later. Fundamentally, post-Stalin CPSU started sucking because Stalin wasn't able to rebuild the party like Mao did after the Long March. And this wasn't the fault of Stalin since Stalin himself recognized this problem and started to rebuild the party. But at this point, he was far too old.