I never count the many crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as crimes of communism. Because Lenin betrayed the revolution and had the actual communists arrested so that he could cement his totalitarian dictatorship.
He lost the November 1917 election, and threw a hissy fit that caused a civil war.
Which started a long line of dictators pretending to be communists, pretending that communism requires a dictatorship.
If the State owns everything, and has police that will kill you for speaking out, then you don’t live under communism, you live under feudalism in a coat of red paint.
Tbf, i dont think they could name all of the African American slaves or the millions killed in the DRC.
You know the drill: Ukrainian starvation genocide = crime of communism.
When the Turkish capitalist empire does the same to Armenians, that’s just one of those things. Feels kinds commie though.
I never count the many crimes of Lenin, Stalin, and Mao as crimes of communism. Because Lenin betrayed the revolution and had the actual communists arrested so that he could cement his totalitarian dictatorship.
He lost the November 1917 election, and threw a hissy fit that caused a civil war.
Which started a long line of dictators pretending to be communists, pretending that communism requires a dictatorship.
If the State owns everything, and has police that will kill you for speaking out, then you don’t live under communism, you live under feudalism in a coat of red paint.
Maybe instead of people, naming the major massacres