Stalin was by most accounts a true believer in Marxism-Leninism. There are simply too many unforced ideological-caused errors for it to be anything else, like Lysenkoism rejecting Mendelian genetics because the fascists loved it and it raised questions of eugenics.
The Stalinist economic plans were thoroughly Marxist. The problem there (as far as Stalin’s true believer status is concerned) was not ideological.
He was just a drunk, paranoid, murderous asshole. Socialists simply don’t like admitting that they’re as vulnerable to hypocrisy and corruption as anyone else.
Stalin was by most accounts a true believer in Marxism-Leninism. There are simply too many unforced ideological-caused errors for it to be anything else, like Lysenkoism rejecting Mendelian genetics because the fascists loved it and it raised questions of eugenics.
The Stalinist economic plans were thoroughly Marxist. The problem there (as far as Stalin’s true believer status is concerned) was not ideological.
He was just a drunk, paranoid, murderous asshole. Socialists simply don’t like admitting that they’re as vulnerable to hypocrisy and corruption as anyone else.
Marxism-Leninism is a form of liberalism.
That’s technically an opinion.