Stalin Versus Marx (Routledge Library Editions: Joseph Stalin): The Stalinist Historical Doctrine by Klaus Mehnert

Author:Klaus Mehnert
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, Politics, History
ISBN: 9781315194660
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1952-01-01T01:00:00+00:00

No more revolutions

But even a revolution from above like the collectivisation will no longer be needed in future, according to the official version. At the time there were still bourgeois elements in the countryside (thus there was an “antagonistic conflict”), the overcoming of which required an act of violence—although from above—accordingly, Stalin deliberately uses the term “revolution” for that process. Now, however, it is declared that in the Soviet Union there are only “non-antagonistic conflicts” left, whose settlement no longer requires revolutions.

Q.E.D. The transition from the existing “Socialism” to the “Communism” aspired to is a qualitative transition. According to the doctrine of Marxism, qualitative changes are only possible by way of a revolution.

Today, however, revolutions in the Soviet régime are utterly undesired. Accordingly, the very word “revolution” is no longer permitted. People must speak only of “leaps”.

The “gradual transition” is introduced as one of the two forms of the leap. So we arrive in theory at the delightful picture of a development, which, thanks to wise guidance from above, is to produce a vast qualitative change, namely the passage from Bolshevik Socialism to ideal Communism, entirely painlessly in the leaps of a gradual transition.

All this sounds quite pretty—provided that an entirely new special position is arranged for the Soviet machinery of state. Stalin’s scribes identify him with a god who not only knows the end toward which mankind is developing, but also the roads along which it will reach it, and who is also resolved to lead mankind along those roads to that end. For those who regard this view as right, there is no escaping from the line of thought of Stalin and Kedrov. He is delivered over to the omniscience and omnipotence of the Politburo.

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