Soviet-style Communism is not my idea of "the left."
If the drab ways imposed by Soviet-style Communism are dead and buried, what next?
In 1979, just as China's leaders were laying out plans to wrench the country from the grip of Soviet-style Communism.
It also shaped his thinking as an unwavering Marxist who shunned Soviet-style communism.
The latter is a stereotype that describes political power that wants to restore Soviet-style communism in Russia.
He witnessed the rise of Joseph Stalin, and became disillusioned with Soviet-style communism.
They probably didn't anticipate the lack of freedom, the corruption and the paranoia of life within a police state, all hallmarks of Soviet-style communism.
Which only goes to show how little Soviet-style Communism as perfected by Stalin has to do with socialism as the rest of the world knows it.
And as a lifelong anti-Stalinist, he had radical political credentials that were untainted by an attachment to Soviet-style Communism.
The Bolsheviks were certainly "of the left", and the advocates of Stalinism, Soviet-style communism considered themselves to be "leftist".