STALIN: DEFENDING THE HISTORICAL RECORD AND INTERNATIONALIST FRAMEWORK AND HOW IT MAPPED ONTO THE HISTORICAL COMMUNIST MOVEMENT
The "Right-Wing Dictator" Accusation of Stalin, these comparisons to Hitler are intellectually bankrupt and ideologically motivated. The structural differences were categorical, not matters of degree. Hitler led a movement whose explicit purpose was the defense and purification of a racial-capitalist order, the destruction of organized labor, and the elimination of communists. The NSDAP was funded by German industrialists precisely because fascism's function was to save capitalism from revolutionary challenge. Stalin led a state whose structural foundation was the abolition of private ownership of the means of production, the collectivization of agriculture, and the construction of a planned economy oriented toward working-class material advancement. These were not comparable projects. Calling both "dictatorships" because both involved centralized authority was like calling surgery and assault the same thing because both involved cutting. What critics dismissed ...
