With the death bell sounding for any notion of the Marxist ideals that the revolution were based upon, as well proving an economic boon for Soviet era undertakers, he put the right willies up the West, especially America who feared an Anarchist Socialist revolution and still today wonderfully confuse Communism, Socialism and Marxism and warn of a coming Commie pinko take over.
During one of the many times of famine, when asked what he was going to do to get more food on the shelves, he replied that shops should build bigger shelves, that was the level of the man who, just in case you missed the earlier sentence, was not the brains of the operation.
Thankfully he died of a cerebral hemorrhage before he could overtake the Mongol leader but he did leave something to at least one member of Soviet Society, someone nicked his hat as he laid in state as well as providing a certain English writer with inspiration for a cartoon about Pigs who overthrow their ruler and corrupt their ideological goals where everyone is supposedly equal and for tens of millions under Stalin they were, all equally dead.
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Below is a simple historical recap of socialism and communism by the well respected geopolitical analyst George Friedman. It is a fair recap of the leftist ideal of achieving equity (perfection of humanity) via socialism and communism.
I prefer a messy republic form of government that emphasizes individual liberty.
It’s been nearly 70 years to the day since Josef Stalin died, and his legacy is worth remembering. His predecessor, Lenin, was effectively the founder of the Soviet Union. His beliefs defined the Soviet ethos. Following Marx, Lenin wanted to establish communism to perfect humanity (nothing says leftist more than "perfecting humanity" - aka equity... q comment).
Marx understood creating perfection would be a long and arduous, so he posited an intermediate phase called socialism (note for leftists deniers - socialism is an intermediate phase to communism and perfection, and who doesn't want perfection... q comment), governed by the dictatorship (aka communism is leftist fascism... q comment) of the proletariat – the working class that would dominate communism. The dictatorship of the proletariat could not be ruled by the proletariat as a whole because it was politically backward (funny, the left manipulating the "politically backward" for their own good... q comment). The responsibility for governance was thus temporarily shifted to a group of intellectuals, bureaucrats and police, secret or otherwise, called the Communist Party (hey, they left the "free press" and journalists off the list. clearly an error... q comment).
The operating principle of the Communist Party was that there was no place for bourgeois morality in the hard work of perfecting humanity, a task so important that anyone who stood in its path had to be liquidated or terrified into standing down (and leftists say violence is the domain of the right - how funny... q comment). Kindness was a betrayal of the proletariat; indeed, perhaps the most dangerous sentimentalists were members of the proletariat (in other words the people that needed to be saved needed to be killed too - brilliant... q comment) itself, many of whom had to be liquidated so that the rest might triumph...
And so it was that Lenin was recruited by German intelligence to take a train to Russia to foment a socialist revolution designed to cripple the country and trigger its defeat in World War I. Lenin embraced the role of destroying his country in order to save it (once again, just like the left, imposing their views for the good of the victims. what a delusional concept, but one we hear from the left time after time... q comment).
But Lenin was an intellectual, crippled by the complexities of thought (the "elite" left show us this on a daily basis - crippled by thought. they have to use complexity and twisty logic to hide their views and to rationalize what they call "logic"... q comment) that he created. The revolution required someone without any scruples, someone who understood that ruthlessness was a moral absolute, and who did not read any German philosophy that could blunt the knife he carried. Stalin was the logical outcome of what had come before.
In the 1930s, Stalin consolidated power through a massive slaughter of hitherto loyal party members. Stalin also believed war was coming and that Russia did not have the capacity to build a powerful military. His problem was that he had little money and nothing to trade. He solved the problem by selling grain that was plentiful in Ukraine.
The Holodomor was the disappearance of food from Ukraine and the death of many tens of millions of Ukrainians. (the left often blame religion for killing millions, which is true, but but forget leftists like Mao and Castro... q comment). The numbers may seem preposterous, but they are conservative.
The logic that flowed out of Marx’s mind (and into him from the thinking around him) arrived at the logical conclusion that Marxists loved. Sentimentality about lives undermines the revolution.
Too long. Ignored.
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