The Stalinization Process

Andrew wrote: "You cannot simply assert that (a) or/and (b) leads to 
Stalinism.
You have to show by logic and facts that this is an inevitable outcome.

Ok, here it is: (I will do it briefly and roughly since I don't care for 
long
posts myself.)

(a) Eliminating markets will encounter large resistance. Violence on a 
massive
scale will be required to overcome it.
So the revolution is bloody. One will also need an ideology that justifies
massive bloodshed. It also requires people willing to engage in bloody acts.
That gets me part of the way.

The next step is (b) dictatorship of the proletariat, which is, of course,
necessary to keep the capitalists from returning to power. Such a 
dictatorship
generally gets rid of dissent (those advocating maybe a market here, a 
market
there) and so engages in censorship.

Now let's settle down to communism:
Keeping markets from forming will require force. Keeping the idea of markets
down will also require force in the form of censorship.
It will require much interference and control in daily affairs, and a police
state is a likely result. Those people who were willing to do the 
"necessary"
bloody actions will still be around to utilize their special methods.

Replacing markets will require the input/output system mentioned in an 
earlier
post.
Such a system won't be able to compete with capitalist systems of 
production and
distribution, or, if a world-wide revolution occurs, production and 
distribution
will be found to be more difficult when one is actually faced with it.

This fact will have to be kept from the people, as  will, in fact, much 
other
information. The argument will be that the gov't must protect its citizens 
from
capitalist propaganda. And capitlist agents will be seen everywhere. But 
some
will find out. Or they will just criticize for whatever reason. Either way, 
its
out to the gulag for some, death for others, and an inefficient system for 
all.

Ok, that is my general idea. Let's hear a plausible scenario that eliminates
markets and uses a dictatorship and then avoids Stalinism or some equally
horrific outcome.

Randy Groves