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Ts’in Che Hoang Ti had books burned, but he never managed to get rid of all of them. In our own century Stalin went further, yet despite the various accomplices he managed to find outside his empire’s borders, there remained a vast area of the world beyond the reach of his police, where his schemes could be ridiculed.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §6

Stalin, like any other outmoded commodity, is denounced by the very forces that originally promoted him.
Guy Debord, La société du spectacle §70

The industrialization of the Stalin era revealed the bureaucracy’s ultimate function: continuing the reign of the economy by preserving the essence of market society: commodified labor.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §104

Stalinism was also a reign of terror within the bureaucratic class.
Guy Debord, Commentaires sur la société du spectacle §107

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