obviously "stalinism" is more like a slur than something real but every maoist owns the label rather than rejects it. we are the only true "stalinists" that exist.

is this albanian erasure?

I was saying that because I'm a maoist I follow Mao's writings and actions. Not stalins. That should be obvious

nah he was the homie but "hoxhaism" doesnt really exist anymore except in albania so

mao is stalin. stalin is mao. maoism is a movement against comintern revisionism, its not literally "the teachings of mao". obviously mao is important to maoism but the point is that everything mao said or did was already contained within marx, engels, lenin, and stalin. he simply built upon their anti-revisionist legacy and made it better.

No bro. If you call yourself a maoist I don't agree with your definition of maoism

this is what marxism-leninism-maoism is. you simply aren't one, sorry.

either youre some slimy frenchman who escaped in a time machine from 1966 or youre a trotskyist.

Because I believe Stalin did something wrong I'm not a maoist? Ok that's your opinion

oh now we're moving the goalposts are we

Explain to me how I'm moving goalposts. Our argument was whether Stalins invasion of Iran was wrong

it wasnt "wrong" for reasons already explained to you

unless you truly believe Iranian oil shouldve been used in a machine to slaughter jews and communists by the millions

I’m an actual Maoist and he is correct lol. It’s fine if you’re still learning but you should educate yourself more before being so loud and wrong

I also have to question what “party” you belong to, as I don’t know of any parties in the imperial core (which I assume you’re from) that any Maoist would condone let alone join.

what

who said he never did something wrong tho?

some of the thread acknowledges the purges were bad and some defend them

nobody thinks the purges were bad and if they do they either lack the proper a***ysis or information. the purges have to viewed through the lens of the great proletarian cultural revolution to be correctly a***yzed.

Purges are needed in any party

spend 10 seconds on any social media and you'll understand why stalin had a divine right to the purges

This post for instance seems to acknowledge how ridiculous it is that even his most crucial diplomats weren't above Stalin's paranoia

He threw Molotovs dang wife into the gulag his chief negotiator that he trusted with the Soviet Unions most crucial international relations

stalin wasnt paranoid and the purges were more like a large scale social movement that incorporated the masses, a la the gpcr. its almost certain that the success of the purges in neutralizing the rightist fifth column resulted in the military victory of the red army in wwii. why this or that specific individual was purged is both unknowable and unimportant.

the only legitimate critique of the purges is a retroactive one, which is that the CPSU had an underdeveloped understanding of revisionism compared to the maoist era CPC and therefore the purges didn't actually go far enough in rooting out capitalist roaders.

And Polina was what? One of the most dedicated Bolsheviks who's main concern was Stalin's well-being even after getting s***canned

The fact that y'all support mass executions but are surprised not enough people want to join a party that may or may not eventually decree then to be an enemy is weird

this doesnt make sense because the purges were extremely popular in the USSR and had the support of the masses who rallied around Stalin and the left-wing of the cpsu. the GPCR was even more popular and went deeper in rooting out bourgeois culture. and not only was it popular domestically but it inspired maoists around the world to adhere to cultural revolution as a program. we're talking millions of people. it even inspired a copycat event in Albania with the Albanian communists claiming they could do it better.

normal people dont actually care about anticommunist propaganda about "mass executions" I can assure you, it is only the domain of internet debate bros.