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Stalin (and the Bolsheviks in general) were collectivists. They thought the ideal/only implementation of communism to be for the state to nationalize everything and manage national wealth rationally through collective labor of proletariat, which is pretty much what he did. Now this always was and will always be a ruse for obvious reasons, but it seems like Stalin, just like other Bolsheviks from before 1918, believed in that ruse. That's what we see in the Five-Year Plans and de-kulakization, for example. Their line of thinking seems to have been "the proletariat are represented by the party of the proletariat + we are the party of the proletariat = when we control the means of production, the workers control the means of production". It's fucking stupid, but these are MLs and proto-MLs we're talking about; of course their mental gymnastics are fucking stupid.
I also want to note and stress that this was in no way unique to Stalin. The Left Opposition (Trotsky and crew) were pushing for the exact same thing before Stalin allied with right-leaning Politburo members to oust them, and what Stalin did bears strong resemblance to what Lenin was up to during his time in power (see: War Communism). TL;DR: They're all true believers, and they're all pigs. Fuck MLs.
L'worker, et moi.
Just like how China is still a shining Marxist government, which is why the whole world uses them for a bunch of its production, even though the workers owning their own means of production means they get to keep a greater share of the profits and so it's more expensive... than... yeah, something like that.
Wow, how did I not think of that? That's literally it.