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Stalinism is used by Hoxhaists to self-identify, used by Trots as a pejorative for Marxist-Leninists, or can be used to refer to Stalin's policy in the soviet union (such as socialism in one country). "Stalinism" as an ideology is just Marxism-Leninism, which Stalin synthesized.
Libs and Trots wield the fear of Stalin as a club to silence Marxist-Leninists in public spaces by calling us "Stalinists."
do you think it'd be funny to plunge a know-nothing lib into the deep end of the olde leftist infighting, by saying "I'm not a stalinist, stalinists are Hoxhaists, I'm a Marxist-Leninist! That's like calling a Marxist-Leninist who adheres to Mao Zedong thought a Maoist. You're practically spitting in their face because you're calling them a gonzolite baby bath-water enjoyer or a pot-head!"
"whats a pot-head?"
"someone that hates cities and glasses"
"like a hipster?"
"sure lets go with that."
I assume it would be like walking into the Star Wars cantina for them.
Calling soneone a Rosa killing luxembourgist is advanced leftism
"Do you want the entire story of scientific socialism starting with Marx and Engels, or do you just want to know why real socialists never trust socdems?"