#6 Joseph Stalin - Purge all who are disloyal to your rule.

Click ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ to receive this episode's Sultan Letter. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠linktr.ee/willtopowerpod⁠⁠⁠⁠------------------------------------------------------------------The principles were extracted from Stalin: A Biography by Robert ServiceThe Principles:1. Devote your life to an ideology, surrendering both thought and action to its cause. (01:49)2. Support the heir apparent. When the new king is enthroned, you will be rewarded with power and prestige. (22:29)3. When given an inch of responsibility, take a mile—power is seized by the bold and aggressive. (41:18)4. Forge strategic alliances to eliminate your main rivals, collaborating until you wield enough power to reign supreme. (58:43)5. Anoint yourself high priest of the ideology and claim supreme authority over its sacred dogma. (01:31:26)6. Wield the dogma of the state’s ideology as a blade, cutting down your enemies with righteous precision. (01:44:15)7. Once you hold power, purge all who are disloyal to your rule. (02:04:50)8. Conceal your mistakes by scapegoating a subordinate. (02:27:09)