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Debunking 3 Common Myths About Communism

There are countless lies about communism and socialist states repeated so often they’re treated as “common sense” by anti-communists. Trying to debunk all of them would be a huge task. But here I’m going to tackle three of the most common claims I keep hearing in conversations about communism.  These claims are: Communism doesn't work and can't provide a good quality of life for people.  The famine of 1932 was a genocide & people who live in socialist states are starving. The Gulag system is comparable to Nazi concentration camps and death camps. I’ll probably go into more detail on some of these myths in separate articles later, but for now, I hope this helps some comrades get to the bottom of some accusations often thrown at us. Myth 1: Communism doesn't work and can't provide a good quality of life for people. We’ve all heard it before: “Communism sounds great on paper, but it doesn’t work.” Unfortunately, the people who say this think they’ve come to that conclu...