The Fourth International must contain stalinism in its self-concept to supersede it

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James insisted that Lenin would have understood that “The history of the Third International is the history of the supersession of leninism by stalinism,” and that finally, “If the Fourth International is to supersede stalinism then it must ‘contain’ stalinism in its concept of itself. It begins from all the things that stalinism took over from leninism and kept… . The Other of stalinism is an international socialist economic order, embracing from the start whole continents” (p. 87). — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1317