>> To anticipate sources of confusion--I understand that Stalin
>> should be included among Marxists, because at least one of his
>> works is canon. But Tito was never anything but a Stalinist, and
>> Castro was even further from Marxism before becoming a Stalinist.
> Yeah, well, he (Stalin) isn't.
The rule is: If a communist is currently popular, then he was a good
communist in his own time. If he is currently unpopular, then he was a
state capitalist. This solves a lot of sticky problems. These
Communists in communist countries have nothing to say about it, of
course, since armchair communists are the experts of our time...
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