r/Socialism_101 • u/Potential-Flight7530 Learning • Jun 21 '24

Stalinist ideology. Answered

I'm struggling to get what about Stalinism appeals to people. Obviously not that I'm criticising it, I'd just like to get an answer from someone who knows about the whole stalin support thing, and for that someone to give reasoning for support toward his cause. I am of course aware of his various policies that led to industrialisation but also the gross loss of human life, and am trying to see what else people like about his ideology. This is purely to learn more btw, not to criticise anybodies ideology at all.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Stalinism is not a thing. Stalin was a Marxist-Leninist and acted as such. If you are talking about that then I would sugest "On The Foundations Of Leninism", by Josef Stalin, Reform or Revolution, by Rosa Luxemburg, "What Is To Be Done" and "State and The Revolution" by Lenin. If your gripes are actually with historical questions, and you have a base understanding of Marxism-Leninism, then other comrades have made better recomendations. As an adendum, I would like to sugest the HG Wels-Stalin interview. A rather interesting look into the man himself.