I didn't mean to "defend" Stalinism, insofar as the man himself was a paranoid, brutal dictator who did a lot of evil shit; I only meant to contrast it with our

I didn't mean to "defend" Stalinism, insofar as the man himself was a paranoid, brutal dictator who did a lot of evil shit; I only meant to contrast it with our totalitarian global corporate capitalism, which is (if we're honest about the matter, and if we take a global view) just as bad. Stalin killed about ten million. Capitalism kills that number, mostly in the Global South, in less than a year.