Anti-Stalinism
Anti-Stalinism is opposition to Joseph Stalin, his ideas, his legacy, and Marxism–Leninism more broadly. Anti-Stalinism is an extension of anti-communism, although some anti-Stalinists such as Trotskyists and "left"-communists claim to be communists. Some anti-revisionists[a] object to the word "Stalinism", but they are not anti-Stalinist.
A materialist analysis of the past several decades shows that anti-Stalinism (and De-Stalinization more broadly) led to the weakening of the international communist movement and the eventual degeneration of the socialist camp. It's also not a coincidence that anti-Stalinism was used to justify revisionist and opportunist positions. Trotskyism, which had been defeated as an ideology, made a comeback after Khrushchev's "secret speech". Khrushchev himself was an ardent Trotskyist.[1]
Anti-Stalinism is, by default, anti-Leninism. The tearing down of Lenin statues in Eastern Europe was not proceeded by a campaign against Lenin's leagcy and ideas, as the attacks against Stalin were enough.[2]
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References
- ↑ TheFinnishBolshevik (November 20, 2022). Sources of khrushchevite revisionism (just some thoughts). Retrieved April 23, 2025.
- ↑ Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens. pp. 2.
"For thirty-five years, the revisionists worked to destroy Stalin. Once Stalin was demolished, Lenin was liquidated with a flick of the wrist. Gorbachev carried on by leading, during his five years of glastnost, a crusade against "Stalinism". Notice that the dismantling of Lenin's statues was not proceeded by a political campaign against his work. The campaign against Stalin was sufficient. Once Stalin's ideas were attacked, vilified and destroyed, it became clear that Lenin's ideas had suffered the same fate."
Notes
- ↑ Maoists are revisionists, this article is not referring to them