On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 08:34 AM, gojko rakic wrote: > > "Stalinist" is widely used by some Marxists.
Charles' and other vocal admirers of Stalin object to that term and prefer to be identified as “Marxist-Leninists” in the belief that they are the only tendency representing continuity with the iconic figure of Bolshevism and the Russian Revolution. They disregard that the supporters of Trotsky and Bukharin also claimed his legacy. Each faction cherry-picked Lenin’s texts to support their respective political programs. They could do so without difficulty since Lenin, to his credit, consistently altered his strategy in line with changing political and economic circumstances. It was understandable that the polemics were so heated then since they turned on the decisive questions of how to take and hold power, both in relation to Soviet Union and the world revolution beyond it. They became deadly when the Right and Left factions were violently suppressed by Stalin’s victorious faction. Today, these terminological and doctrinal disputes between what remains of these different tendencis are mainly academic and their continued intensity in and around the university and on social media and mostly remind me of Sayre's law except that, unlike in the past, the stakes are so low. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41009): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41009 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118178757/21656 -=-=- 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/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
