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It's more of a sectarianism play because every "stalinist" refers to themselves as either communist, marxist, leninist, marxist-leninist, so forth as a political claim on being the orthodox catholic position with all other tendencies being protestant splinters, with said splinters calling the Communists "Stalinists" as a means of squabbling for political legitimacy of being the default representation of what communist and communism is.
Ergo why maoists are called maoists even though they baselessly claim they're the most successful, advanced, and contemporary marxist ideology, why trots are trots, hoxiaists hoxiaists, etc.
It's basically wordplay power-dynamics and I'm being a catty bitch anytime I facetiously call myself a Stalinist whenever the prevailing topic of the post relates to some sort of marxist ideology
Fair enough, I still think "There's no such thing as Dengism" is still just not a constructive conversation approach for reasons suggested by your reply, and "Stalinism" still has more coherent reference in your usage than a liberal sarcastically calling themselves a communist for being left of Hitler (on domestic issues), because you still (rightly) endorse many positions promoted by Stalin in a historical debate with Trots and others, while the liberal bears much less in common with a communist.
It's a whole field of academic study ultimately.