We all know Stalin had a personality cult develop (unwillingly) around him. And some correction was going to happen even without the revisionism of the nomenklatura taking it to extremes.
That doesn't mean we can or should discount Stalin as a leader or theorist, and it's bizzare to me that anyone does. Just because I disagree with Lenin or Mao or even Deng on some (the latter many) points doesn't mean that they aren't communists in good standing.
It's important to transition from the liberal challenge of "identifying one's enemies correctly" to the constructive "identifying one's allies correctly" which is actually useful to building a socialist culture around you.
We all know Stalin had a personality cult develop (unwillingly) around him. And some correction was going to happen even without the revisionism of the nomenklatura taking it to extremes.
That doesn't mean we can or should discount Stalin as a leader or theorist, and it's bizzare to me that anyone does. Just because I disagree with Lenin or Mao or even Deng on some (the latter many) points doesn't mean that they aren't communists in good standing.
It's important to transition from the liberal challenge of "identifying one's enemies correctly" to the constructive "identifying one's allies correctly" which is actually useful to building a socialist culture around you.