• Candelestine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What claim did I make that I now need to back? That Stalin took over the USSR, or something else?

    Regardless, I can’t help but point out how obviously you are avoiding my single, very reasonable question.

    • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      What claim did I make that I now need to back?

      a Stalin that takes advantage of the situation to seize power.

      You don’t get to duck my question by asking a question.

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          1 year ago

          You quoted part of a sentence. That was part of a question. Questions and claims are not the same things.

          It was not a question. This is the full quote of your original claim:

          Figure out a way to implement communism without creating a Stalin that takes advantage of the situation to seize power, and we can talk.

          Your implications are:

          • that Stalin was bad.
          • that Stalin wrongly “seized power”.
          • that Stalin wrongly held onto power.

          I asked: “If Stalin was so intent on seizing power, why’d he try to resign so much?”. I think that neutralizes all three of your implied claims.

          You have not answered.