Reply #155: Stalinism was reactionary state capitalism and had zero to do with the Bolshevik revolution

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which pretty much invented our public schooling system, community colleges, literacy programs, and day care. Under Lenin, homosexuality was legal and so was gay marriage and abortion and sex reassignment surgery. Russian workers lived under better conditions than under the czar or the brief reign of Menshevik betrayers--even though they were immediately fighting the imperialist armies of 7 nations (including the US) after the 1917 revolution. Talk about total decimation of resources. If anything, it was a failure of the working classes of the world to stand down and refuse to fight the new USSR.

Stalin took over after Lenin's death against Lenin's explicit suggestions. He did this by killing every person involved in the Revolution. He outlawed abortion, recriminalized homosexuality, introduced the nationalist fever of "socialism in one country", and purged anyone who disagreed. That's not the "natural outcome" of a workers state. That's a totalitarian takeover of a war-decimated population by a dictator who took the resources for himself and his nomenklatura.

And as far as China is concerned--what worked better? THE NATIONALIST-FASCIST WARLORD CHANG KEI-SHEK? The guy whose totalitarian army blew the heads of unionists and workers in the streets? Sure Maoism was another failed nationalist perversion of the original workers' movement. But are the people of China doing better under the corrupt totalitarian capitalists of China now (It hasn't even been a Communist Party since 1975!) It's the damn Communists leading the democracy movement there! Hello! :crazy: Is Russia even better off under global capitalism as opposed to the state capitalist nationalism after Stalin? No. It's a material fact that the Russian people are worse off, that there is major repression, and that the nation is run by brutal thugs and mafioso.

Please. :eyes: