Stalinism

Stalinism has been considered by some reviewers as a " Red fascism ". citation Though fascist regimes were ideologically opposed to the Soviet Union, some of them positively regarded Stalinism as evolving Bolshevism into a form of fascism.

The term "Stalinism" however was in use as early as 1937 when Leon Trotsky wrote his pamphlet "Stalinism and Bolshevism".

Both have seen the highest level of industrial action since the collapse of Stalinism in Russia and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.

I wouldn't even call it Stalinism and rather go back to the Mongol period.

Millions were sacrificed on the altars of Nazism, Stalinism and Islamic fundamentalism.

One is the opportunity Anthony Albanese has opened up with his eager dismissal of break-up powers for supermarkets — something the prime minister deems shameless Stalinism.

That did for Stalinism as far as Sorley was concerned.

William O’Neill provides a short course on this aspect of Wallace’s foolishness in Chapter VI of A Better World: The Great Schism: Stalinism and American Intellectuals (1983).

Such talk was commonplace a decade ago, but has receded as the manifest absurdity of an anti-American axis of evil composed of the disparate forces of religious rule and zombie Stalinism has been laid bare.

Now, if you can’t have an opinion about whatever, the press included, and express it, who talks about Stalinism?

Rather, it reflects a new stage in the crisis of Soviet Stalinism, in which the objective conditions are ripening for political revolution to overthrow the bureaucracy and restore the role of the working class.

The main trick is to equate socialism either with bureaucratic-totalitarian Stalinism or social-democratic reformism.

We can see the pernicious role played by the methods of Stalinism and identity politics in the movement.

After he was exiled and politically marginalised by Stalinism, Trotsky continued to argue for a united front against fascism in Germany and Spain.

Anarchists are critical of the statist, totalitarian nature of Stalinism, as well as its cult of personality around Stalin (and subsequent leaders seen by anarchists as Stalinists, such as Mao).

Consequently, some of the world's Communist parties, who previously adhered to Stalinism, abandoned it and, to a greater or lesser degree, adopted the positions of Khrushchev.

East Germany's culture was shaped by Communism and particularly Stalinism.

In doing so, some historians have tried to distance Stalinism from Leninism in order to undermine the Totalitarian view that the negative facets of Stalin (terror, etc.) were inherent in Communism from the start.

Once established as ruler of the USSR, General Secretary Stalin re-titled the official Socialism in One Country doctrine as “ Marxism-Leninism ”, to establish ideologic continuity with Leninism, whilst opponents continued calling it “ Stalinism ”.

Political scientist J.S. Maloy states that ‘the twentieth century added Nazism and Stalinism to Jacobinism on the list of horrors for which Rousseau could be blamed.