Given that this community has generally positive view of Stalin, I’m curious what he did that my comrades find irredeemable or out of line. Since it’s easy to criticize the Soviet Union from a western perspective, bonus points if you explain how this was detrimental to the development of socialism and/or communism.
I will criticize Stalin in that I think he shouldn’t have made abortion illegal after the Russian Revolutionary era Recovery years.
I understand he wanted more soldiers to fight fascism, and I appreciate that the Soviet authorities allowed millions of exceptions in cases of rape and incest and life-threatening situations, but regardless.
I also understand that Darwinism was often used as an excuse for scientific racism, and I don’t think that Lysenko did nothing of value, but Stalin shouldn’t have rejected genetics and Darwinian evolution as fast or as hard as he did.
Do you happen to have a link where I could read up o Stalin’s rejecting of evolution
Not anything directly on hand, my apologies.
I’ve read that he rejected Darwinian evolution because it was a bourgeois neoliberal theory used to justify racism. Many people did use evolution as an excuse for racism, and so did lots of scientists. But it was only due to elements of scientific and neoliberal culture and prejudice, and inaccuracies. Even Darwin himself was against slavery, and had relatively progressive views on race at the time.