https://www.reddit.com/r/Communist/comments/1ft1rkl/question_for_communists/
created by ShrimpOnWheels on 30/09/2024 at 17:47 UTC
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Earnest Question: How do you justify the atrocities commited by the soviet union?
Comment by FromAcrosstheStars at 01/10/2024 at 04:05 UTC
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I don’t. Atrocities have been committed under every ideology. The people are the fault and how they used the ideology to justify horrible crimes. It doesn’t mean communism is bad and shouldn’t be strived to.
Also inb4 “capitalism isn’t bad by that same logic!” No, because capitalism requires atrocities to happen in order to exist. It cannot exist without inequality. Without homeless, poor and exploited workers capitalism can’t exist and it is directly responsible for those atrocities. Meanwhile communism aims to do away with inequality and to stop atrocities in general. People who used to it for mass murder are just power hungry dictators and not real communists.
Comment by PossibleSource9132 at 30/09/2024 at 18:04 UTC
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What atrocities?
Comment by Vermicelli14 at 30/09/2024 at 19:26 UTC
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I don't, they were awful, and there's lessons to be learned for the future
Comment by [deleted] at 03/10/2024 at 18:53 UTC
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how do you justify the atrocities committed by the united states?
Comment by RussoRoma at 06/10/2024 at 07:56 UTC
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The same way you justify your own atrocities.
Comment by Kamareda_Ahn at 23/10/2024 at 21:52 UTC
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Basically everything but Cambodia was A. Made up B. Over exaggerated C. Devoid of context D. Actually good And plenty of other things happened but Cambodia is the biggest one people try to use and it makes no sense, Pol Pot was a commie in name only. Anything bad that happens was the result of failing the ideology not an example of it. The Great Cultural Revolution comes to mind. That was the overzealous actions of a few individuals, not the intent of Mao Zhu Xi at all…
Comment by Awkward-Broccoli-150 at 01/11/2024 at 12:57 UTC
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Read a genuine book (Michael Parensis is a good start) instead of the propaganda you've been fed your entire life. Do you even know how this figure came about or heard of "The black book"? Nazis killed by Russians -who in fact suffered the most fatalities of any nation and took Berlin after fighting in WWII throughout the entire conflict -being the main body responsible for defeating a Nazi takeover of the entire European continent, were counted as victims of communism.
Pregnancies that were never even conceived due to wartime and the severity of economic sanctions imposed primarily by the US were also counted as "victims of communism.
Capitalism has killed more than any other political system EVER. More than Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge, many times more.
Americans (through no fault of their own) have been systematically poisoned and brain washed to despise communism. Why? Because it's a more humane and equable system, so directly threatens the Capitalist agenda responsible for the USA incarcerating more people than anywhere on the face of the Earth, Military veterans and young people sleeping in the streets, barely any young people having the slightest hope of becoming a home owner, a health"care" system that relies on a few good natured people yet you can't afford to call an ambulance (that's insane). How many young Americans are forced to work multiple jobs?How many go to bed hungry? How many have no right to access FREE, clean, drinkable water?How many died during the pandemic due to believing misinformation?
It's not the "evil" pharmaceutical companies responsible for unaffordable life saving medicine. They are bound by the same pressure and obligations as all you are. Your government should be imposing price caps, providing subsidies and Yes!! SAVING YOUR LIFE!! Instead, you're expected to make the ultimate sacrifice fighting one of their many oil wars, global policing -dying for something that has nothing to do with you at all for the sake of a halfway decent education.
No other nation indoctrinates children like yours. The pledge of allegiance aka;brain washing. NEWSFLASH!! America is NOT the greatest country to live in by quite a way. They just don't want you travelling overseas where you might realise that people in much of the world OUTSIDE of America are far better off in terms of health, happiness, opportunity and freedoms.