I was entirely aware of the assistance the USSR received from western powers. Doesn't change the fact the USSR was responsible for 80% of Nazi deaths and sacrificed more than anyone to do so. I am not asking you to respect the state and the representatives within it. I am asking you to respect the millions of people within the Soviet Union who toiled everyday to build a better life for each other and their descendents. I am asking you to respect the people who believed a better world was possible, spent every day working for it, and truly accomplished it without the imperialist plunder western empires engaged in for centuries before they decided workers deserve a smidgin of rights if they promise not to kill their oppressors.

The Soviet Union had market forces starting with the NEP in 1921. It is a legitimate method of building up the productive forces within the dictatorship of the proletariat. It didn't "bail them out" it was a strategy that communists have used and continue to use to their benefit. Market economies are only "intrinsically superior" if your goal is to industrialize quickly. They are not intrinsically superior if you are trying to immediately provide the best conditions for working people. If your measurement of success is measured by how much stuff you can produce is quickly as possible it is because you have bought in to bourgeois values.

I won't deny that China made some mistakes that are retrospectively obvious. It is important to note that the obviousness is retrospective and external to the Chinese experience however. This doesn't change the fact that the Communist Party of China is responsible for one of the greatest poverty alleviation efforts in human history and that this results from their interest in providing for working people as representatives of the proletariat.

I mean it when I say what about your society. If Communism is so inherently awful every time why has it done these things? Why hasn't Capitalism? If Capitalism is so preferable to Communism why does it rely on the systematic impoverishment of the global south? You often hear the claim that Communism killed 100 million people and this is obviously false when you actually investigate the source (The Black Book of Communism) but say we accept that claim. Let's say Communism did kill 100 million people. Capitalism is STILL worse. Britain killed at least 100 million if not 160 million in India alone all in the interest of profit. source (seriously read this paper it has a lot more than that in it) That's one imperialist state out of many in only one of the regions they exploited. This is to say, at the worst most propagandistic estimation of how many people Communism has killed, it still fails to beat the deaths caused by Capitalism in just one region. Sure, some people died because of Communism but lets not sit around pretending its success depends on slaughter like Capitalism does.

I want you to seriously think about Africa for a minute. It's colonization is a pretty recent thing, only really kicking off in 1884. The states responsible were Capitalist. Marx was dead before the Berlin Conference. Capitalism raped an entire continent. The population of the Congo was reduced by nearly half in only 23 years. CAPITALISM IS A FUCKING DEATH CULT! THE FACT THIS YOU DO NOT LIVE WITH AN UNDYING ANGER FOR IT AND THE PEOPLE WHO ADMINISTER IT RUNS ME UP THE FUCKING WALLS!

I really try not to get mad at liberals online as I think its bad form but holy shit just writing this last part out raised my blood pressure. It sickens me that people like you can act smug online and butcher the history of people who fought for a better world they genuinely believed in because capitalist bloodbaths secure their little treats and semi-comfortable lives. The people of Gaza are being eviscerated and starved to protect your "inherently superior market system". Iranian schoolgirls were blown to bits and the Cuban people have suffered under siege for decades for your fucking treats. Fuck you