So what do you call people who believe in a literal Stalin?
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Im a Cultural Stalinist, i dont really believe in all the stories literally but i think there are alot of important moral lessons in the stalinist texts
same, in our family we weren’t religiously Stalinist but we celebrated all the holidays, like holodeen when we went from door to door to eat grain
If Stalin did not exist, communists would have to invent him!
Look, most scholars now believe that there was a historical Stalin, but we don’t know about who he was or his teachings, since the histories were actually compiled much later by Stalinists. That is why I believe that he may have been a good man, but Stalin wasn’t the literal Dictator of the Proletariat, and his words about how we need a prophesied “Man of Steel” to fight Lex Luther were likely later embellishments.
Trotskyists
Stalin is just a folktale that Trots use to get their kids to behave
I’d you don’t put your toys away Stalin will send you to the gulag where they don’t have any toys.
it’s for the toys
I don’t like the fact that I understood this post immediately
I only believe in a liberal Stalin.
Ironically these people are feet away from John Brown’s sword, and he definitely would’ve used it on em
that sword is the only thing in Kansas I want to go see
Biblically accurate Stalin
I only believe in a Literary Stalin
He’s real he ate all my rice the bastard
Stage 1: Reflection of a Basic Stalin
In this stage, a sign or image is seen as a faithful reflection of a real, underlying Stalin. This is the “sacramental order” where signs are believed to represent something real and truly Stalin.
Stage 2: Masking and Denaturing Stalin
Here, signs and images begin to mask and distort the underlying Stalin, rather than reflecting him accurately. This is the “order of maleficence” where the sign is an unfaithful copy, hinting at an obscure Stalin it cannot encapsulate.
Stage 3: Masking the Absence of a Stalin
This stage involves signs pretending to represent Stalin, but with no original or underlying Stalin to represent. The sign masks the absence of a real referent, claiming to represent a Stalin that doesn’t exist.
Stage 4: Pure Simulacrum
In the final stage, the sign becomes a pure simulacrum, no longer related to any Stalin whatsoever.
Signs merely reflect other signs, and any claim to Stalin is just another sign, creating a hyperreal, self-referential world.
deistic stalinists
Stalinots
Conservatives believe every liberal is a Stalin-Mao hybrid
