Are his books worth reading?

Not unless you're a 80 year old babushka seeking to relive the tender childhood memories of being shoved history of Bolshevik country down her throat in school, or a angry alcoholic Russian high-school drop out with no bright perspectives in life LARPing as a Stalinist.

>>9572781
I'm an anarchist and even I think it's good to critically read Stalin's "Dialectical and Historical Materialism". It helps to see the ideology which underpinned the Soviet Union's ruling class and their actions.

>>9572816
Why is it important to see the ideology which underpinned the Soviet Union's ruling class? Surely there are more important and interesting things to read about.

>>9572834
Something to do with the unprecedented amount of horror and terror that the Soviet Union carried out. I'd like an analysis of this society, since I have the same goal of communism without the deaths. All the explanations I get from Peterson fanboys is "dude, just read the folktales in Gulag Archipelago," which I think is lazy.

>>9572844
>Something to do with the unprecedented amount of horror and terror that the Soviet Union carried out.

Why does the New Left eat that bullshit up like candy? The most staunch anti-communists are the New Left.

>>9572844
>literal autobiography of a gulag guard
>folktales

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>>9572858

Marxism and the National Question is an unironically good Marxist analysis and influenced Lenin to a great degree in his Right of Nations to Self-Determination.

Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR gives an interesting insight into Stalin's conception of socialism (the law of value still operating, commodity production persisting on a limited scale).

>>9572858
I dunno, it's weird. Sort of like how Germans are so anti-nazi and stuff. Anyone would think there's something in their history that they're worried about.

>>9572862
Yeah, fuck off. Look at the communist countries before the revolution. Communism has heaved more than a quarter of the world's population out of abject poverty and all you niggers go on about is the supposed 500 million gorillion victims of those regimes.

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>>9572868