File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1996/96-11-22.061, message 63


Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 09:22:47 -0500
From: Maoist Documentation Project <mao_docs-AT-blythe.org>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: Soft on Stalinsim?


>If you are seen to be soft on Stalin etc you repell people. This was classicly
>the case at a fairly recent May Day demo where Maoist fuck wits not only
>carried pictures of Stalin on the march but tried to lead the march with them.
>This served to discredit the whole left. The immediate question of new people
>was what are these people doing on the march? What has that mass murderer
>(Stalin) got to do with the struggle for a better world.

Reactionaries, liberals and Trotskyists have expended so much time and
efforts to defame Stalin, it's no wonder some of the masses are confused.
Obviously the efforts of reactionaries are more effective, but I have heard
Trots with a straight face say that Stalin murdered millions of Communists!
Presumably he would have been the only one left in the USSR, holding a
smoking gun, surrounded by piles of corpses....

I guess the former Soviet working class is the "softest" of all on Stalin,
judging by his rising popularity there, a phenomenon of no small concern to
the imperialists.

Maoists in Australia are to be commended in their support for Stalin.  It
was the Maoists who advanced a materialist critique of Stalin and capitalist
restoration, that both acknowledges Stalin's great contributions and
criticizes his mistakes.

MDP
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