RedArmyCapybara

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...

Note from author: Some of the links in this article are broken. Will be updating and fixing in the near future. While this is old news in 2024, the western media is still talking about it and it seems that some people haven't caught up yet. Whenever there is a discussion about China, the US state department crafted narrative on Xinjiang is repeated again and again. So, if you aren't caught up yet, that's okay, let's catch you up.  Any honest look into this situation must begin with a crucial fact. If you look at the Global Terrorism Database , as of 2024, there have been 288 recorded terrorist attacks in China since 1989. When I initially looked into this a few years ago there was around 254 terrorist attacks, with a significant portion of them specifically in Xinjiang. People often understate and overlook how deep these problems ran in the area and how bad it was there for many years due to Islamic extremism. These weren't some minor attacks by irrelevant groups, b...