(March 7, 2015 at 10:49 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(March 7, 2015 at 10:46 pm)Dystopia Wrote: Stalinism is slightly better because at least it uses force to implement marxism, since there is no other way to implement such an ideology. Russia grew with Stalin despite the atrocities, they came close to the US during the cold war.
Maoism on the other hand was a complete disaster.
Also, Stalin's idea of nationalist communism was more realistic since communism would never spread to the whole world. It was basically a mix between nation + tradition and collectivism, communism. Interesting for scholars
Millions of people starved and were enslaved during Stalins reign. It's pretty hard to call it better than much.
I don't think that's relevant because Stalin didn't give a shit. But Russia grew a lot and became the 2nd most powerful nation next to the US.
Maoism was a total failure, it was a terrible idea.
I'm not defending Stalin, the guy is a far left authoritarian, I'm just saying at least it's more realistic than Marxism because it allows the state to intervene massively to impose "collectivization"
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you
