The image attached portrays the defence of Stalin as a waste of time at best, this is frankly charitable compared to most self proclaimed leftists who think the rehabilitation of Stalin is actively harmful towards our movement.
There are reasons as to why the rehabilitation of Stalin is indeed an important issue and not just some trivial thing that we must halt in order to gain a larger following.
The rehabilitation of Stalin’s image is less about the rehabilitation of Stalin as a historical individual and more about defending and upholding Marxism.
Condemning or even refusing to uphold Stalin to at least some extent is equivalent to fighting our enemies on their terms. Why would we let our enemies decide who we should love and hate? There’s no reason to allow the historical narrative that our enemies have constructed to be our historical narrative, that’s just ideological surrender, may as well become a liberal at that point.
The total slander and demonization of Stalin’s image is what leads most people into deviationist tendencies, tendencies which are totally harmless towards the bourgeoisie. It’s only logical, if people believe Marxism-Leninism led to practically 1984 in real life, then why would they follow it?
Rather than keeping quiet about the USSR under Stalin, it is our duty to defend this period against the reactionary slander laid upon it. It was the first time in human history that mankind entered the socialist mode of production, and that’s something to be cherished.
Oh gotcha! Sorry! Thought it was your new main account.
It’s ok, I mean it’s not like you’re trying to get my attention(?) so it’s not a big problem, people can still look at my profile and DM me or reply to any of my comments. I am just interested and do want the ping. Also if you sometime in the future actually did want to get my attention then it would be important.
I was mostly wanting to let you know that I’m shouting it out for the sake of patting you on the back for what I consider to be an amazing project and all your hard work on it, and give others a way to reach out if they had questions. But thanks, I’ll keep that in mind! I had thought the new account was your new main, but instead I think I’ll refer to it on Hexbear, your .ml account on .ml, and your grad account on here, unless you have other preferences.
Thanks!