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Im not sure I follow. Are you saying the conception of a Soviet Union was easy/destined/inevitable given how bad the Tsars were?
I'm not sure I understand your point about feudalism either. Marxists understand capitalism as an economic development built upon feudalism - of which there were many benefits in abandoning, as well as many new evils.
Someone claimed that Stalin made things worse. You replied that Stalinism couldn’t be worse than the Tsarist system.
This is like if someone claims capitalism makes things worse, coupled with the reply that capitalism couldn’t be worse than feudalism.
Obviously such an argument is flawed. When we say that Stalinism “made things worse,” we mean compared to an easy-to-imagine, common-sense alternative for that time and place. For instance, if someone had shot Stalin and then allowed a random person to run the Soviet Union for a while, things would have almost certainly gone better.
Where did I claim this?
Why is this your comparison?? If the claim is that Stalin "showed up" and things got worse, it follows that your point of analysis would be comparing against whatever immediately preceded Stalin.
Actually, it's not at all like this... a better comparison would be if someone said "capitalism showed up and made things worse"