Two brief comments: (1) A matter of terminology-categorisation-shrouding. The term 'Stalinist' is a most convenient way of garbaging any critique that points to any distinction between the state under JVS and that of Khrushchev, Brezhnev or Putin. What both Louis and you mean (in my own view) when you discuss 'Stalinism' to the current situation in Syria - is a misleading shorthand. One that ties Putin to a former socialist state while instantly igniting the conditioned response that 'anything to do with Stalin' is repugnant. If people - rightly object to the often loosely-tossed term 'fascist' - as a blanket derision for anything that is not liked shorn of analysis - those same people might consider looking closer at the toss-off label 'Stalinism'. (2) Roger Kulp says: "This is a history rarely discussed in leftist circles. This article doesn't nearly cover all the details, though." This is quite correct. The article in question that was referred to by Louis, does not cover details. Regrettably I have found details are precisely what the blinkered Putin-ites manifestly do not care about. More to the point, it is difficult to get leftists who are on the verge of being taken in by the noise created by the Putin-ites, to wade through detailed footnoted texts. The Putin-ites have successfully camouflaged what went on (& is going) in Syria. To serve the purposes of showing the 'detail,' were prior articles that in reality go back to the 1990s. But here they are referenced from only later iterations in the more recent years around 2017 on. These include: The class character of Syria-From an Oriental Despotic State to Neo-colony to fascist dictatorship to civil war: : http://ml-today.com/2020/11/24/the-class-character-of-syria-assad/ ( http://ml-today.com/2020/11/24/the-class-character-of-syria-assad/ ) (2) i) Kurdistan a ML Framework, Part One: http://ml-today.com/2019/07/29/theses-on-kurdistan-a-marxist-leninist-framework/ (2ii) Kurdistan a ML Framework, Part Two. http://ml-today.com/2020/01/01/kurdistan-a-marxist-leninist-framework-part-two/ Hari Kumar
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