Firstly, I am not defending Stalinism. I have opposed it all my life. second, realistically, yes, you gotta pick your body count. There is no alternative, especially including doing doing, that has no body count. Sorry, Cholly, you all have dirty hands -- those who defend the existing order, those who resist it, those who advocate one or another alternative, those who do nothing.
From my tag-line poem, To Those Born Later (An Die Nachgeborenen), by Brecht:
I came to the cities in a time of disorder
When hunger reigned there.
I came among men in a time of revolt
And I rebelled with them.
So passed my time
Which had been given to me on earth. My
food I ate beeween battles
To sleep I lay down among murderers
Love I practised carelessly
And nature I looked at without patience.
So passed my time
Which had been given to me on earth. All
roads led into the mire in my time.
My tongue betrayed me to the butchers.
There was little I could do. But those in
power
Sat safer without me: that was my hope.
So passed my time
Which had been given to me on earth. Our
forces were slight. Our goal
Lay far in the distance
It was clearly visible, though I myself
Was unlikely to reach it.
So passed my time
Which had beeen given to me on earth.
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