Has Anyone Read Anything By Joseph Stalin?

[Comrade Ceausescu]

If so how was it?Because i was thinking of buying a "selected Works" type book on him but i just wanted to know your thoughts on him as a writer and theorist.

[Wenty]

"Foundations of Leninism", although I have never read is supposed to be pretty poor because he quotes large chunks from Lenin and Marx. Reading Stalin would be unwise i feel, simply because his later actions mar everything.

[elijahcraig]

Stalin Library (http://www.marx2mao.org/Stalin/Index.html)

Many of his works are located there. A great man, a great Marxist.

[Comrade Ceausescu]

thanks comrade!

[Ctisphonics]

Shoot, there goes my assassination theory of Trotsky! My Theory (http://www.geocities.com/ctisphonics/Leon_Trotsky.html)

[Ctisphonics]

Triple shoot! The work I was trying to put on the net, Mao's Strategy manual "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" are already on the net! Agghhrraaahhhhhh! Hope Jomini's Art of war isn't, it's my next focus.

Number three:
Reading Stalin would be unwise i feel, simply because his later actions mar everything.

I would say it's even MORE important to read his works because of his later deeds, may help prevent evil, that's why I'm reading the communist works, cause their aim is pure unabashed evil, the best defense is the knowledge of their innerworkings. Stalin obviously gets the top priority, need to use objective history to judge the gap between operational and functional ideology.

[Vinny Rafarino]

"Foundations of Leninism", although I have never read is supposed to be pretty poor because he quotes large chunks from Lenin and Marx. Reading Stalin would be unwise i feel, simply because his later actions mar everything.
You have got to be kidding me.
QUOTE=Comrade Wenty,Aug 21 2003, 06:22 PM] "Foundations of Leninism", although I have never read is supposed to be pretty poor because he quotes large chunks from Lenin and Marx. Reading Stalin would be unwise i feel, simply because his later actions mar everything. [/QUOTE]
You have got to be kidding me.



EDIT:

Ctisphonic,


I read your site. Your take of Stalin is absurd. Perhaps you should read some of his works before you assume he was a dimwit.

"Doesn't strike me as much of a reader" you say?

Well, as comrade Salin was a journalist from his very early days on, and authored MANY books and articles on marxism, economics and socialist revolution, perhaps it is you that are "not much of a reader".

[Rastafari]

Originally posted by [email protected] 1 2003, 07:58 PM
Triple shoot! The work I was trying to put on the net, Mao's Strategy manual "Problems of Strategy in China's Revolutionary War" are already on the net! Agghhrraaahhhhhh! Hope Jomini's Art of war isn't, it's my next focus.

Number three:
Reading Stalin would be unwise i feel, simply because his later actions mar everything.

I would say it's even MORE important to read his works because of his later deeds, may help prevent evil, that's why I'm reading the communist works, cause their aim is pure unabashed evil, the best defense is the knowledge of their innerworkings. Stalin obviously gets the top priority, need to use objective history to judge the gap between operational and functional ideology.
hahaha. your the funniest and smartest dumbass I've ever met

welcome to the board, bud