My dad called me one last week. I told him I’m not even a communist, just a moderate social democrat who likes Soviet symbols for the shock value. (Not true, I’m a Marxist-Leninist, but gotta keep the peace with family, IYKYK.) But now I’m wondering, is “Stalinism” even a thing? Are any of you bears “Stalinists”?
“Stalinism” is also a pejorative term wielded by western liberals against anyone who is to the left of Hitler and who actually wants to win instead of being good little western leftists who fetichise bourgeois parliamentarism and insists on losing every single time.