World History

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Age of Politics and Dictatorship

Though Stalin already died, there are still a lot of remembrances about him larger than existence characteristic; this barely shocking when we consider his opposing functions of an angel of brightness and prince of dimness. This said nothing about Stalin as a man in politics. For we are ready to stay on ground level and try to evaluate Stalin by examining the social and financial place from which he grew.
We cannot start to know Stalin without bringing in Lenin and the Bolsheviks who for many years formed a part of the Russian Social Democratic Party. Certainly, that organization of doctrine, eclecticism, opportunism,and self-contradictory thoughts which goes beneath the name of Stalinism is concentrated in a more accurate form of what was always unspoken in the theories ans strategy of Lenin and his Bolshevik Party. While Stalin in his self-styled role of Philosopher-Statesman wanted to expand and increase Leninism - the unsaid Marxism of the 20th century, though he never attempted to violate his master's patent on the
center of attention.
Stalin was a Bolshevik and not one of the slightest that Lenin led and stimulated. He formed with Lenin a critical link in a chain of political ideas whose first stage culminated in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Certainly Stalin was more adjusted to the logical and political atmosphere of the regimented and conspiratorial Bolshevik Party than ever Trotsky was, an actuality no distrust of essential importance in his effort for authority with the concluded. Leninism as a political belief was born out of the control philosophy and fundamentally dictatorial thoughts of the early Bolsheviks. Stalinism was unavoidable and catastrophic completiion. Yet when the Bolshevik Lenin first appeared on the Russian political scene he accepted the view of people like Plekhanov, which acknoledged the pupil he was. Lenin's first significant work, "The Development of Capitalism in Russia," was published in 1899, putting forward the view that Capitalism was increasing in Russia and nothing could stop it from continuing. This expansion he argued was progressive in relative to the existing semi-feudal nation of Russia. Whereas no one could fight this expansion he said, nonetheless workers should organize to fight its problems and steps should be taken to prepare for its concluding supercession.