Nope, we can't agree on that.
Ugh, that's fine. Refuting an overwhelming amount of evidence on the basis that it is "bourgeois conspiracy" only gets you so far though. Once again most figures state that he did indeed kill more people than Hitler, agree or disagree is your perogative.
There is no such thing as 'free society'. No one claimed the USSR to have been a 'free society'. I don't see where you're trying to get at.
Oh man, you're right, no society is completely free, let's just all regress to turning family members in that may or may not be disagreeing with the government. I am trying to get at the fact that at least in other "Free" soceities, you have the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, freedom of the press, etc. All freedoms that were flat out denied in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Moderate bourgeois historians such as Getty accept that Stalin was not the 'Ultra Evil Mastermind', but that different forces struggled in the society aswell as in the state apparatus.
The greatest purge was done when Lenin was alive.
Keep throwing around that bourgeois word as an attempt to discredit (or perhaps an attempt that I will credit) them. I'm not even sure what exactly that second sentence is supposed to mean, as if it's supposed to justify the murders of millions of people for disagreeing with the government. Tell the Ukrainians that the Great Purge wasn't that bad.
It's really funny when hired pens of Western capitalists never mind about workers or them being exploited, but make that up by shearing MILLIONS (read it again, MILLIONS) of crocodile tears when it comes to that 5% that suffered under Stalin's leadership.
Yeah you're right. Being unemployed is totally the same as being killed if you were unable to meet insane quotas. Right. If someone is exploited under a capitalistic society do they not have the right to take their services elsewhere? It's one of the large misunderstandings of economic theory that Marx, and as a result, Communism makes. It doesn't understand that labor is a commodity, and that corporations are in demand of good labor. But hey, the other way works to doesn't it? I mean history shows that it did......wait a minute....
Trotsky could have been put down without "conspiring him to get to Mexico". Trotsky was deported from the USSR in 1929. Trotsky was icepicked as late as 1940. That was after he began publicly demining the defence of USSR by urging its citizens to rebell on the eve of Fascist attack
Icepicked by who again? So you justify Trotsky's murder because it happened 10 years after his deportation? Your logic doesn't seem to make sense.
Ever heard of the NEP? That was a temporary retreat to capitalism. It was about allowing capitalism to exist under the supervision of the state of the dictatorship of the proletariat. NEP was ended and the socialist transition launched only after the NEP had fullfilled its mission, when it was infact driving vast masses of peasants landless and reinforcing the kulaks. NEP was abandoned and socialist transition launched just in time.
Yes, I have heard of NEP, and to say that it was doomed to failure from the start would be too nice. Dictated Capitalism is an oxymoron, so any economist can tell you that it was doomed to failure. What I respect about Lenin was that he at least was moderate enough to try SOME form of Capitalism, even if he was to stubborn to accept a Free Market system.
But alas, my opinions don't agree with yours, so I must not know what I am talking about right?
"Never put passions ahead of principles. Even if you win, you lose."