To Stalinists: How could Socialism possibly work in one country alone?

[RevolutionaryThinker]

Especially if it's a little country with not many resources?

[RedKobra]

Would you get a Stalin in a country that had so few resources that it couldn't industrialise? What does a country with so few resources it had no hope of development even look like?

[Comrade #138672]

Obviously this theory resulted from the cognitive dissonance associated with the failure of the Russian revolution to spread to other capitalist countries.

[G4b3n]

As much as I dislike defending Stalinists, here is the argument.

Socialism in one country was a result of the unique conditions of the Russian revolution and its failure to spread westward at that point in history alone. It does not mean socialism in only one country and it is not the ideal for all situations.

[motion denied]

Unabashed justification of the failure of world revolution.

Yeah, I merely paraphrased other posts.

[Illegalitarian]

It was nothing more than a strategic ploy by Stalin to win over the more conservative elements of the Bolshevik party, who were tired of the revolutionary situation that had barely brought them through a bloody, terrible civil war and wanted stability and peace above all else.

And, well, it worked.