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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster

A century ago, from December 18-31 of 1925, the 14th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union—the first congress following Vladimir Lenin’s death—endorsed the policy known as “Socialism in One Country.” The policy argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders.

https://internationalsocialist.net/2026/03/stalin-socialism-in-one-country/

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Stalin’s “Socialism In One Country”—A Century of Disaster - ISA

'Socialism in one country' argued that a single country could construct an advanced socialist economy within its national borders. This was a complete reversal of the Bolsheviks' previous internationalist position.

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Cvexreos ☭1d ago

This policy was a complete reversal of the Party’s previous internationalist position. However, it didn’t come as a surprise to the Congress. It had already been presented a year and a half earlier, as part of the struggle between the rising Stalinist bureaucracy and the Left Opposition.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

The notion that socialism could be built in a single country was completely alien to Marxism. From Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, to the leading Marxist figures in the early 20th century, including Lenin, the struggle for socialism always required an internationalist outlook.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

In his 1847 piece The Principles of Communism, which was essentially the draft of The Communist Manifesto, Engels wrote:

“Will it be possible for this revolution to take place in one country alone? No. By creating the world market, big industry has already brought all the peoples of the Earth, and especially the civilized peoples, into such close relation with one another that none is independent of what happens to the others.”

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Please stop spreading revisionism mate. There are thousands of documents showing that the west manufactured the anti stalin stance with billions of dollars.

The following books show very well how, why and when they did it and how ridicolous the notion of "evil stalin" is:

- losurdo's stalin - history and critique of a black legend
- gerhard schnehen - stalin, eine marxistische biographie
- rockhill - who paid the pipers of western marxism

There is no use to keep spreading it.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

@haui
All the social-chauvinists are now “Marxists” (don’t laugh!)

(Lenin, S&R)

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Please read stalin. Calling him a chauvinist is the most braindead western take to have. I own all of his writings and have read a ton of them. They are conclusive on his stance as far as I can tell. Stalin was the exact opposite as he is portrayed by the west.

Sidenote: I am deliberately refraining from getting too confrontative - although I am very upset atm - because its my duty as marxist to engage in good faith.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
So you're trying to say you're not a marxist as you dont understand how to engage in good faith dialectical debate. Got it.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Any other deep analysis bro? 🤣

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Nice meme selection. You do understand that you're not a marxist at all, right?

Engels wrote about scientific socialism. It isnt about dogmatic beliefs but applying the scientific method.

For that you need to read, a lot. What you're doing is the ravings of a child.

Here, read some contemporary marxist stuff in actual marxist journals:

https://monthlyreview.org/article-author/gabriel-rockhill/

Gabriel Rockhill Archives - Monthly Review

Monthly Review

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

But the transformation, either into joint-stock companies, or into state ownership, does not do away with the capitalistic nature of the productive forces. The modern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, The workers remain wage-workers - proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with. State ownership of the productive forces is not the solution of the conflict.

Frederick Engels - Socialism: Utopian and Scientific

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Have you read any of the critique I just threw at you?

Your method is ass. You dont engage in good faith, you dont ask questions, you are acting extremely chauvinist.

Posting barely fitting quotes does not change that.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

Social Chauvinism

Aggressive or fanatical patriotism, during time of war, in support of one's own nation versus other nation(s).

Two examples of Communists who fought against social-chauvinism during WWI were Rosa Luxemburg and Liebknecht. They stressed that the only violence that should be used is the violence necessary to overthrow one's own government. They agitated to show that common social relations united workers across any national boundaries.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

Chauvinism

After Nicolas Chauvin, a zealously patriotic soldier under Bonaparte. Marxists apply the term chauvinism to any explicit support for the idea of the superiority of one nation over others. During WWI, the pro-war ”socialists” in each of the belligerent countries justified their ”national defencist” position by adopting the chauvinist argument that conditions for developing socialism were more advanced in their nation than in others.

haui ☭ 🇵🇸15h ago

@Cvexreos
You're still not engaging in good faith debate. Whatever you think this does, every person reading this sees that you are not using marxist technique.

Cvexreos ☭14h ago

Using quotes is very Marxist. Half of State and Revolution is Lenin doing exactly that

haui ☭ 🇵🇸13h ago

@Cvexreos
Lenin wrote so many things that it doesnt fit on a normal shelf. Him quoting anything always stands in context of his other works. Its is really not that hard to understand.

Also this is a red herring. He did not quote in "the other half" to use your phrasing, the book is the least important from a theory perspective and it is infinitely small compared to his other works. Quotes are not theory. They are references.

Why do you proclaim to be a marxist but dont read theory?

Cvexreos ☭13h ago

You said State and Revolution is the least important work of theory 😭😭😂😂

This is you bro

haui ☭ 🇵🇸12h ago

@Cvexreos
If you had read any works of lenin, you would know that state and revolution was by no means his greatest work. And you're again taking me literally instead of in context.

State and revolution on its own is nothing. Without marx and engels works and e.g. imperialism and left communism, it isnt helpful.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

Read Lenin's Last Testament https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/index.htm

"Stalin, having become Secretary-General, has unlimited authority concentrated in his hands, and I am not sure whether he will always be capable of using that authority with sufficient caution. Trotsky, on the other hand, as his struggle against the C.C. on the question of the Commissariat of Communications has proved, is distinguished not only by outstanding ability. He is personally perhaps the most capable man in the present C.C."

Letters to the Congress

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
Please read the books. This last "testament" is likely written by his wife and has been a strong deviation from all of lenins other writings. I urge you to at least read in good faith. That is the least a real marxist would do.

Cvexreos ☭1d ago

"Once capital exists, it dominates the whole of society, and no democratic republic, no franchise can change its nature."
- Lenin, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1919/jul/11.htm

The State: A Lecture Delivered at the Sverdlov University

haui ☭ 🇵🇸1d ago

@Cvexreos
You're using bourgois debate technique. Lenin quotes are not a weapon. His writings are meant to be taken in context. Please start engaging in good faith.