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Interesting short video exposing communism's fundamental self-contradiction:

I forgot to respond to this earlier. Yes, he was the legitimate chancellor of Germany who sent freshly-demobilised WW1 veterans in to suppress attempted communist uprisings aimed at overthrowing the shaky German government, in a situation in which Germany was still at war with the Entente...

Caplan on Marx's anti-freedom ideology: https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/museum/marframe.htm

Hmm, it seems the death toll of communism is 50% higher than Courtois' estimate at approx. 150 million: https://scottmanning.com/content/communist-body-count/

The Bolsheviks in 1917 were also heavily funded and armed by Imperial German intelligence.

In fact: The second-to-last statistic kills it IMO.

Not to mention that it wasn't possible in the bronze-age world because the production of bronze required sophisticated long-range trade networks stretching all the way to Cornwall.

The big problem with how communism has been able to rehabilitate itself is that there was no liberation of the USSR like there was with Germany.

What is needed more than banning communism is making the public more aware of how evil it is.

I find that doubtful unless we develop a technology that completely removes resource scarcity as a factor, similar to Star Trek's replicator.

One of the key problems with socialism (defined as government ownership of the means of production) is that it tends to reduce inequality not by raising up the lower classes but by cutting off the tall poppies. And of course, the regime ends up funneling large amounts of income to Party bosses...

It's price control in general, which tends to create a massive black market ... so you need a secret police to catch black marketeers and so on.

You've literally stated that in this thread that Marx's economics would be universally accepted if economists hadn't accepted large amounts of bribes to refute him and that a whole school of economics was created by "the elites" from whole cloth specifically to attack Marx. There are line...

It's a succint and complete description of Marx's economic theories and how utterly wrong they are. Since you of course have admitted that you know nothing about economics and have no interest in it (and have therefore concluded it's all bunk and the reason Marx isn't regarded as the greatest...

Wrong: https://friesian.com/marx.htm

Hell, Wikipedia even says that Marxist economics is considered a dead end and a marginal subject in academia. It's all a big conspiracy man. Like when the police enforce reasonable regulations on handing food out in public, it's 'cause they're trying to starve homeless people to death! Guess...

Let's also look at Marx's predictions: 1. Wages rose rather than fell; the middle class grew instead of shrinking. 2. There was no world revolution. 3. Communist revolutions took place in less-industrialised, more feudal areas of the world such as Russia and China over well-industrialised, more...

Marx and Wells were in favor of this, not to mention the USSR's numerous ethnic cleansings. The USSR along with other communist regimes criminalised and persecuted LGBTs. Communists have persecuted and tried to destroy all religions and view religion itself as a tool of oppression. So...

"When we rise up to kill all the people who are non-specifically oppressing us, they'll be the violent ones for defending themselves against us!" You mean, like so? "Waaah waaah people aren't immortal under capitalism this is 100% the same as communists deliberately murdering people!"

Don't forget this is also happening in a world where Marx is considered one of the greatest economic thinkers within that field, and yet economics still has less to do with empiricism than a discipline devoted entirely to reaching conclusions via abstract ideas.