Kristen’s line that : Stalinism is just Marxism-Leninism, is another one of those habitual refrains on r/communism on reddit and other fora where , predominently young M-L’s congregrate . Where Trotskyists , libertarian communists and any other anti-Stalinists are quickly purged.
ironically such a line mirrors what figures like anti-communist proto-neo-con James Burnham, wrote in organs like Partisan Review in 1945, iirc, in “Lenin’s Heir,” that there was a straight line of continuity between Leninism and Stalinism. I’ll just repeat two standard quotes that even the dense , given to misperception , should get as reflecting my views. For decades. “The present purge draws between Bolshevism and Stalinism not simply a bloody line but a whole river of blood.” LDT, https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/08/stalinism.htm It is often said that ‘the germ of all Stalinism was in Bolshevism at its beginning’. Well, I have no objection. Only, Bolshevism also contained many other germs, a mass of other germs, and those who lived through the enthusiasm of the first years of the first victorious socialist revolution ought not to forget it. To judge the living man by the death germs which the autopsy reveals in the corpse – and which he may have carried in him since his birth – is that very sensible?” – *From Lenin to Stalin* , 1937. Victor Serge https://www.marxists.org/archive/serge/index.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#28568): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/28568 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/103690802/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
