Thoughts on "Lenin's Testament"? Most information I can find on it is contradictory. The WiKKKipedia page is unhelpful as expected and I can't find much other discussion about it.
The whole fact there's a "debate" on whether it's real or not, when Stalin himself considered it real (he read it early) shows the latent cognitive dissonance of ideologues that cling to the ML label. It's that or they just pretend it doesn't exist, like that succdem S4A.
Lenin's observations on Stalin and Trotsky correlate with their historical actions. Trotsky was truly a bottom bitch for Lenin, skillfully commanding the red army and even arguing with Lenin when he made strategic errors, and this running theme that they openly hate each other is born from people cherry-picking small letters from Lenin, who writes purely in polemics. It ignores the fact that Lenin always had Trotsky handle the hard stuff. What idiots misunderstand is that having disagreements, doesn't mean they're going to kill each other. That's the best type of partnership, despite crashing out in private letters occasionally. It's practically Nietzche's star friendship. There is no reason to believe Lenin's analysis on Trotsky wasn't authentic when you recognize this.
Meanwhile, Stalin fucked up every military campaign he was a part of. This reached its apex during the Polish war (which Trotsky argued against, but Lenin overruled him). Stalin refused orders to send over troops which led directly a crushing loss, which then lead to him being relieved of his post. What Stalin was good at was kissing ass, which was evident from his centrist position during the left-right opposition or how he handled the testament. This is how he kept close with Lenin and one can assume that with his death nearing, and after the civil and polish wars, that Lenin started to recognize what Stalin was doing, and hence the warning. Someone else said basically the same but tried to undermine it by focusing on a specific insult (which is how they validate their views on Trotsky).
This isn't even an argument that Trotsky is perfect and Lenin critiques Trotsky in the same testament. If he theoretically won the power struggle, the international would have remained and he wouldn't have wasted a decade trying to court both nazi Germany and the allies, like Stalin did. It's about all the bullshit people spout about this writing which belongs with all the other consciously incorrect ideological platforms like the people living in Moscow trials era propaganda (that we know was fake) or stuff that's refuted by Stalin's own actions like the brief period Stalinists shilled the Comintern before promptly destroying it. Them claiming the testament is fake, or Lenin didn't "mean" it is just another symptom of their fixation on supporting Stalin as an edgelord move rather than any critical reasoning. That, and there's a youtube/forum pipeline that leads you to Stalin and to a lesser extent, Mao.
>>2329990it also doesn't exist anymore
>>2330283name one war stalin didn't fuck up when he was in key command of, why would he dissolve the red army? why would he do everything he could to put as much distance between it and himself?
>>2326786>Stalin fucked up every military campaign he was a part of.He actively listened to his commanders and changed strategies when they suggested it. Exactly what a political leader is supposed to do.
>What Stalin was good at was kissing assaka political organizing. This is the main reason why Trots always lose, they can't deal with any opposition, split into thousands of ineffective parties, accomplish nothing and cry out to aliens to do shit for them.
>>2330355>it also doesn't exist anymore4 decades after his death. He couldn't control USSR's later bad leaders and bad decisions from the grave. Sure he could have done some things better but not everything can be blamed on him.
>>2330389It was the USSR's cultural revolution and low key civil war getting rid of internal Fascists. Even if they went overboard, it was the first socialist state to ever exist so it's not like could look at other socialist states for guidance.
>>2315236Nothing you describe has happened in reality. It was Khruschevite forgery, enabled by Krupskaya already being dead. There's zero evidence from before the letters getting published by Khruschevites that a supposed fallout with Krupskaya/Stalin has happened
Furthermore, they've constantly tried to incriminate Krupskaya herself in ties with opposition, like, Zinoviev/Kamenev had a democratization proposition, Krupskaya didn't just throw them out of the door outright, and so they collected her signature on a bill that had wildly different content, one Krupskaya didn't see and had to defend her own name. Since then, she was in a very hostile mood to trots and rightists.
Bet they don't tell you about this incident, don't they? Instead, they at best present it as Stalin terrifying Krupskaya into compliance, heh
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