• diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
    12·
    2 years 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.

      • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
        01·
        2 years 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.