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I love it when I, a communist who actively does not (or at least should not) subscribe to liberalism and its thought-terminating cliches, gives a speech which is 90% undiscernable from a United States government statement on Cuba
I genuinely don't think I can take a single person who unironically uses the term "Stalinism" seriously at this point. Maybe there's some extremely specific usage revolving around the leadership of the Josef Stalin (and not every single slightly "authoritarian" leader) where it could still have some value, but I doubt it. For non-leftists, it's just another thought-terminating word that liberals fling around to refer to anybody they don't like, like "tankie". For people who purport to be leftists, it's a way of preserving anti-communist brainworms in situations where Stalin is viewed positively - sure, Stalin might have been a generally good, even great, figure, but Stalinism implicitly invokes the American propaganda about gulags and clapping for hours during his speeches and execution for saying even the slightest thing wrong.