Exaggerations and fabrications

Miguel Rios asked, “Why no mention of the mass murders carried out by your communist heroes inflicted on their people in China, Russia, [etc.]?”

An example of my having mentioned that issue is a letter dated 06.04.19 in which I wrote, “’The Black Book of Communism’ has been disproven repeatedly.” The books’ publisher, Harvard University Press’ Mark Kramer, “has admitted that it contains fatal mathematical errors, which render it akin to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

That polemic has forever been denounced for its audacious, negligent, and exceedingly questionable methodology, because its entire “communism killed more than nazism” premise, is bogus. Not that a communist society has ever existed, but such “accountings” include the deaths caused by the drought-induced 1921 Soviet famine, sanctions, and, say, the US military’s invasion and occupation of the USSR, 1918 to 1920.

Such false accounts also include the many Nazi collaborators killed by the Soviets during WWII. Suffice it to say that capitalist cultures’ uber-funded and nearly omnipresent indoctrination machine is not something truth and accuracy can readily compete with.

Per the capitalist system, some 100 million First Nation peoples have been murdered by European colonizers. And at least 12 million people were abducted from Africa between 1690 and 1808, many of whom were murdered.

Too, countless millions have been killed by capitalism’s wars, occupations, and holocausts. And millions have been murdered by US-installed fascist dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Congo, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iran, Nicaragua, Philippines, Vietnam, etc.

Finally, such exaggerations and outright fabrications are predicated upon the fact that the lives of the vast majority of Russians, Chinese, Cubans, and others improved considerably following their respective revolutions. It’s a fact that indoctrinating capitalist culture could ill-afford not to ignore by any means necessary.

Guy Marsh

Lancaster