I would say he is looking more like Lenin than Stalin: Having some ideal in his mind that he will apply no matter what. And people giving him authority like a God, everything depending on his opinion.
Lenin had his perfect idea on his mind, that did not work in the real work, he exterminated most farmers that opposed its perfect system and made tens of millions of people starve, producing way less food than in the WWI(usually as you end a war your production goes up a lot). All because in his mind, it was perfect.
Stallman is in a similar position with some people venerating him and using him as Messiah of the Pure Free software movement. But no single man is perfect or omniscient.
Lenin had his perfect idea on his mind, that did not work in the real work, he exterminated most farmers that opposed its perfect system and made tens of millions of people starve, producing way less food than in the WWI(usually as you end a war your production goes up a lot). All because in his mind, it was perfect.
Stallman is in a similar position with some people venerating him and using him as Messiah of the Pure Free software movement. But no single man is perfect or omniscient.
Lenin was forced to give way or Russia would have collapsed 70 years before it did. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Economic_Policy
With free software we don't really need Stallman or any other gatekeeper. We(our team) have been using LLVM for a long time because of that.
Stallman is free to have the opinions he wants. People will just move on and use alternatives.