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With the automatic blossoming of revolution assured by "science," and with the deeds of a ruthless party similarly justified, Stalin can turn to the concrete issue: world strategy. The details of his ideas are necessarily secret. But, Historicus shows convincingly, the central plan is use of the Soviet Union as a base for revolution in every country in the world...
Against this, Stalin's interviews with Roy Howard (1936) and Harold King of Reuters (1943), purporting to disavow world revolutionary aims, can only appear as eyewash, and that is just how Historicus explains them. The interviews, he says, "do not really contradict the strategic aim of world revolution because they refer to a temporary tactic...
...Historicus emphasizes that Stalin, in applying his abstract theory, is ever ready to engage in flexible tactics. He does not hold, like a narrow doctrinaire, that the objective preconditions of revolution are a fixed quantity. Rather, these preconditions are "interdependent variables which are to be manipulated to satisfy just one equation...
...equation, as Historicus frames it, is: "Revolution occurs where the Communist command concentrates superiority of forces at a point on the Capitalist front where the bourgeoisie can be isolated and overwhelmed. In other words, 'revolutionary crises' do not have to be waited for; they can to some extent be organized...
Stalin's grand, flexible strategy is, Historicus says, to make Russia a base to support two movements-the proletariat of the West and the anti-imperialist movements for national liberation in the East-merging them into [Stalin's phrase] "a single world front against the world front of imperialism...