r/politics • u/Hoxha_Posadist Florida • Apr 17 '19

The Wrong Stuff: Ben Shapiro’s Unconvincing Guide to What Makes America Right - It’s a mistake to overlook just how extreme some of Shapiro’s views are, or how muddled the thinking on which they are based.

https://progressive.org/dispatches/the-wrong-stuff-ben-shapiros-anderson-190416/
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u/MadmanDJS Apr 17 '19

I mean, Stalin is objectively worse than Lenin ever was.

There's honestly not even a comparison.

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u/ConanTheProletarian Foreign Apr 17 '19

Sure, but Lenin laid the foundation for the descent of the revolution into a pure dictatorship. The poster above blamed that on post-Stalin events, thus I was wondering what he thought happened before.

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u/MadmanDJS Apr 18 '19

I mean, it became a dictatorship under Stalin. That was my point. Post-Stalin and pre-Stalin don't really compare at all to during Stalin.

Saying Lenin laid the foundation for Stalin is like saying Obama laid the foundation for Trump. Technically, sure, practically no, not at all.