(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
Not quite. Maoism created the foundation upon which modern China is built. Modern China is in most ways a more robust power than soviet Russia. Admittedly modern China turned its back on Maoism. But without the foundation of Maoism, it would not have taken off in the first place. Maoism may not have achieved what it wanted to achieve through the means it intended to use to achieve it, but it may well have laid the foundation for achieving those ends anyway through other means.
Also, stalin's nationalist communism was intended to spread to the whole world by unilateral force of the Slavic russian Soviet Union. It failed. Classical communism was meant to spread to the whole world by spontaneous worker's revolution. It too failed. But it is clear the Stalinist model of one state against the world and perfailing against the world is much longer odds shot.
