Name: Anonymous 2016-08-01 4:57
Why wouldn't anyone?
His politics was not leftistsHe did not introguce the free market or make the means of production private property, instead he perpetrated class war (Red Terror) as well as forced industrialization, all according to Marx and Engels' teaching. Hence his politics were purely leftist. If militant communism isn't Left, then I don't know what is.
Lenin has also introduced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_PolicyNow that's an example of a non-leftist policy. NEP was small-scale capitalism introduced as a forced measure. Stalin, on the other hand, ended this right-wing imperialist spree and forbade any entrepreneurship and speculation, showing he was more leftist than Lenin.
took everything people had and turned them into complete slaves at collective farmsGood morning! That's just communism for you. Mao Zedong did the same thing.