Was Stalin a communistic ideologist, or an opportunistic thug?
Opportunistic thug and mass murderer that ought to share the front page of mass murderers with Hitler but outside of Russia, has been underappraciated as the mass murderer he was. There was next to nothing ‘communist’ about the revolution pretty much from the moment Lenin died (and even up to that point, it is somewhat arguable as Lenin accounted mostly as a minority voice throughout the process). There was never anything ‘ideological’ about Stalin unless you count self-promoting mass-murdering thuggery as an ‘ideology’. I contend Stalin in fact, exposes a fatal flaw in Marx’s prescribed ‘stages of revolution’ (the dictatorial strongman). I consider Marx the Einstein of economics and his ‘labor origin of value’ the e=mc2 of economics. He should have stopped there because, as history clearly demonstrates, his prescribed ‘stages’ don’t work real well and have probably caused more harm to the philosophy of communism than any external opponent. That error has probably robbed us of incalcul
