Category:"Stalinism" ontology

"Stalinism" is a particular concept within Trotskyism which roughly refers to the failure to realize a Trotskyist workers' state. At some times, it may appear to be synonymous with "Stalin's Marxism", but one thing that must not be forgotten is the conspiracy-theory undertone of the concept — "Stalinism" is less the act of realizing Stalin's Marxism than the failure to remove imperial culture and The Bureaucracy. This can be a costly mistake when Trotskyists bring up "Stalinism" as the obstruction to Trotskyism and center-Liberals show up assuming that "Stalinism" is precisely the same thing as horseshoe theory and the generalized dictator.

Stalin's government as obstructor

Anti-Stalinists as progressives

2284. Trotsky can speak about what is morally right in the Soviet Union
618. Inside fascism, Trotskyist revolution is moral