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He was generally pro-Stalin and didn't really have anything negative to say about him, especially versus someone like Khruschev, who Brezhnev played a role in ousting.
As I expected. Khrushchev was not just revisionist for denouncing Stalin. That’s all a lot of people care about, but he declared the end of class struggle and implemented bad “reforms” that led to the rotting of the union from the inside. Brezhnev did nothing to reverse such revisionism.
Brezhnev on multiple times proclaimed class struggle to be a fact and constant struggle. Plus, some of his insights and theoretical contributions are sound, like on state monopoly capital.
Class struggle in the Soviet Union or globally? More investigation may be due, but my impression is that he continued many of Khrushchev’s policies and the USSR continued to decline in this era.
Yeah, that's a good point, I just remember that a lot of the works of that period and his speeches stress class struggle as a huge element in the fight for socialism, but eh, he could be speaking generally.