The Triumph of Stalin

Now at last the Communist Party consists of Stalinists only. In a dialectical twist that would have pleased Hegel himself, the destruction of Stalin’s corpse ends with an apotheosis of Stalinism.

For whom did and do we call a Stalinist? A Communist believer whose brains and conscience have been reduced to reflexes of an unquestioning obedience: Moscow’s tuning fork oscillates, and the Stalinists of the world swing with it. This is exactly what is happening now—in artfully graded levels of tone, and with quite deliberate counterpoints.