>Gets outplayed by Stalin, one of history's most infamous idiots
>"Intellectual"

>>17773479 (OP)
>Collectivists
>Intellectual
Coming up with reasons to steal other people's shit doesn't make you an intellectual, no matter how many / intricate your reasons are.

>>17773479 (OP)
Stalin is many things but an idiot he is not

>>17773484
This is pretty much it.
You don't get to the top if you're an idiot, and there are many forms of intelligence

>>17773479 (OP)
holy shit! Colonel Sanders was a communist?!

>>17773484
>>17773489
*trusts literal Hitler*

>>17773479 (OP)

Yet his social ideas are ruling the world. Meanwhile Stalinism is dead and forgotten.

>>17773482
This is why capitalists are dumb.

>>17773489
Stalin was street smart but he certainly wasn't educated or a great strategist.

>>17773493
He could have trusted him more, that's for sure.
There were talks to get the Soviet Union into the Axis in 1940, and apparently the dealbreaker was Bulgaria choosing German over Russian influence

>>17773491
Millions of chickens must fry.

>>17773493
Fascism and communism were not so different, they could have brokered an uneasy alliance but an alliance nontheless

>>17773496
So Trotskyism is when you're gay?

>>17773508
Yeah and ruling the world means 96% of houses in gaza got bombed. Winning!

>>17773484
This.

>>17773493
Cool story, bro.

only Iberia (Georgia) can destroy the Hebrews

>>17773496
Find me a single (1) mention of queer rights in orthodox Marxism, fucking retard. It was about the distribution of material goods solely.

All of that originated with postmodernists Foucault, Judith Butler, long after Trotsky was burning in hell.

>>17773484
>>17773479 (OP)
Stalin was STREET SMART, not book smart.

>>17773479 (OP)
>intellectuals don't make good politicians
Not really a surprise desu, M-Ls were AFAIK the only group to even try to merge the two categories and even there only Lenin and Mao (and Trotsky, I guess, among Trots) are still widely read today

>>17773479 (OP)
The violent always win

>>17773915
Trotsky was in charge of the army during the Civil War and certainly had far more blood on his hands than any other Bolshevik in the 1920s

Serious answer is that Stalin dumbed down communist theory enough to make it practically applicable, while Trotsky dreamed about a global proletarian revolution that never came to be.

>>17773919
He wasn't the thug Stalin was. Thug gets goons to take everyone out then kill the goon.

Old as time itself. Be the top thug then some up and coming thug kills the big guy. No ideology, no rational argument trumps killing.

>>17773928
>proletarian revolution
is no more than a slave revolt to kill the current master so a new master can exploit them

>>17773933
>He wasn't the thug Stalin was. Thug gets goons to take everyone out then kill the goon.
That's exactly what happened to the Tsarist officers Trotsky compelled into Red Army service. Their families were held hostage, they followed orders to try to save them, fought their friends, and then they all got shot together. Long live the revolution.

>>17773479 (OP)
>Stalin, one of history's most infamous idiots
By who?
>Retained power until his death in a very viscious political entity
>Led his state to fend off the Third Reich
>Left the USSR the second strongest nation on Earth

>>17773500
He did author several short works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Works_by_Joseph_Stalin

It's not that he was poorly educated stricto sensu, more like he had little interest for non-political literature