Stalin: A Marxist-Leninist Perspective
Revolutionary Left Radio
Breht O'Shea
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2018
⏱️ 171 minutes
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Summary
Justin and Jeremy from Proles of the Round Table join Breht to elucidate the Marxist-Leninist perspective on Joseph Stalin.
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Sources for this episode include, but are not limited to, the following:
"Another View of Stalin" by Ludo Martins
"Fraud, Famine and Fascism" by Douglas Tottle
"Khrushchev Lied" by Grover Furr
"Class Struggles in the Soviet Union" by Charles Bettelheim
"Stalin" by Ian Grey
"Stalin" by Isaac Deutscher
"Origins of the Great Purges" by J. Arch Getty,
"Blackshirts and Reds" by Michael Parenti
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. |
| 0:10.0 | Today is the day. |
| 0:11.4 | It is our big spicy Stalin episode. |
| 0:15.2 | Now this is an episode on Stalin from a Marxist-Leninist perspective. |
| 0:19.8 | We've had many shows in the past. |
| 0:21.3 | We've had Trotsky episodes where there's critiques of Stalin. |
| 0:24.3 | We've had the Spanish Civil War where I and my anarchist guests have made critiques |
| 0:28.2 | of Stalin. |
| 0:29.2 | We even have an earlier episode on the Soviet Union and Stalin with a Georgetown professor |
| 0:33.9 | of Russian history where he's coming from more of a democratic socialist perspective. |
| 0:38.4 | And we didn't really criticize but just sort of fleshed out what the Soviet Union was, |
| 0:42.4 | the differences between Stalin and Trotsky, etc. |
| 0:44.9 | So in that long list of different perspectives on the left regarding Stalin, this is our |
| 0:49.9 | Marxist-Leninist episode. |
| 0:51.3 | So these are comrades from the rolls of the roundtable who I love and respect and who |
| 0:54.8 | are my friends coming on to talk about Stalin from their perspective. |
| 0:58.9 | Because people that basically uphold Stalin and uphold the Soviet Union, I think it's |
| 1:03.0 | fascinating. |
| 1:04.0 | They did a fuck ton of work to prepare for this episode and to come to this episode with |
| 1:09.1 | a lot of facts. |
| 1:10.1 | So this is a three hour episode and there's parts of this episode that are very statistic |
| 1:17.0 | and sort of citation driven. |
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