Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.
Quotes about stalinism (6 Quotes)
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it's not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don't make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don't cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.
If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.
Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
The point of the play is to separate Marxism and Stalinism. How communism was written and how it was applied to the Soviet Union were two completely different things. There are many misconceptions about socialism.