>avoiding ancient list debates and standoffs, could someone explain
>to me what it means to say "i'm a stalinist" or "she's a stalinist"?
>is there a, uh, non-pejorative sense of the term?
I just google'd the name "Adolfo Oleachea" - the Peruvian aristocrat now living in London exile who does PR for Shining Path, and who is fond of invoking things like the need for an "iron broom" - and came up nearly empty. Adolfo was a real charmer on the early Spoons Marxism lists. A search for one of his hangouts, the Stalin Society in London, also came up fairly empty. I did come across this obit delivered to the Stalin Society for a longtime member (who was also secretary of the Albania Society for 30 years). So here's a taste of non-pejorative Stalinism for you: <http://www.lalkar.demon.co.uk/issues/contents/may2001/bb.htm>.
Doug