Why Did Stalin Be Justified?

Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union starting from 1922-1953 (Mazelev, 1999). Stalin is famous for his extremities used to build and sustain Communism in USSR. He is considered as one of the leaders who were responsible for the death of many people during their rule. The estimated number of deaths for which he is known to be responsible goes over 40 million (Price 2014). Can his actions be justified and what was the end of the means he used? Stalin, as his predecessor Lenin, was mostly affected by the ideas of Karl Marx, a german philosopher, who explored the value and application of philosophy in real life: ”The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.” (Marx, 1845). His most
Stalin’s actions are justified by Marxist ideology because they successfully reduced the class antagonism in the Russian society. Marx believes that there is a class struggle between the most distinctive and broad classes in the society (bourgeoisie and workers) which creates the base of a constant conflict that has escalated many times throughout the past centuries: “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, ..., in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on ... open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. The unity of the
Marx supported the previous statement by introducing the idea of “dictatorship of the proletariat” in his book the “The Communist Manifesto”. He most probably used the word “dictatorship” to emphasize the absolute rule of only one class that will automatically destroy the other classes and therefore establish a classless society that would share the same values and interests. So as to achieve it, the bourgeoisie class needs to reach a state of “consciousness” that will free them from their desires of private property. In this way, the “dictatorship” is a form of rule that makes the government just a tool in the hands of the proletariat that is vital to free every person (regardless of class) from his needs and achieve self-satisfaction and self-fulfillment by working towards the common interests of the society, rather than an oppressive regime which suppresses personal freedom (Kolakowski 1978). Accordingly, Stalin is the framework of the Russian Communism in which center is placed the class of the Russian workers. He wanted to unite the people and destroy the differences in the society that resulted in social, economical and political conflicts: “organize the