When you come back, please give me your favorite real world implementation of communism on a scale larger than say the Jamestown colony (which was nott communism, because they had private property and private ownership of production - among other evil capitalist warts).
So, pick a country or something like the Paris Commune and tell me which one is least objectionable - or even least "Stalinist" as you understand that term.
I am trying to elicit how you draw distinctions such that "Stalinism" is somehow distinguishable from any other implementation of communism/Marxism.
I think "Stalinism" is an apologist term used by those who somehow fancy that communism should nott be stained by the real world examples of its implementation and that somehow those are all outliers which do nott undermine the belief that communism is actually viable or even desirable.
Personally, I think that even the idealized version of communism/Marxism is abhorrent, even if it did "work" as an economic or political system. It would be a very, very gray and uninteresting world with everything equal, even, arguendo, if that could be accomplished in an ideal instantiation.
