Communism

1st Argument:'The most notorious example of forced collectivization is the land reform carried out by Soviets between 1928 and 1933. It was thought that collectivization would maximize the use and potential of the countryside for urban and industrial needs. Russian industry was just taking off, and enormous quantities of food would be required for the workers. The relative success of the free market economy is a real-world refutation of Marxist economics. The latter never has sufficient information on the market prices of commodities, and therefore cannot properly ration the distribution of a nation"s resources.The only reasonable criticism of the free market economy is the presence of monopolies, which can raise the prices of their products with little fear of reprisal. But monopolies are just like the central control a"Communist"government exercises on its whole economy; a true free market ensures that there be checks and balances on the price of goods and services.R32;R32;R32;R32;Masses of resisting landowners"many of them small-scale farmers who worked their own land"died at the hands of executioners. The state"s requisition of crops, livestock, and farmland was paid for by the farmers and by the lower class in general, some ten million of whom starved to death in five years.R32;R32;Exactly the same atrocity took place in Communist China, between 1958 and 1961. During this time, private farming was outlawed as it had been in Stalin"s Russia, and about 33 million people starved to death in possibly the single most destructive famine in human history.Several of these entries are related, and the absence of citizens" rights is at the heart of more than one. In keeping with the last entry, Marx advocated ten rules in his Communist Manifesto for the forced redistribution of all land and property for the good of the national community.R32;R32;This is theft, from the citizens" point of view. They are forced to join the new"Communist"government"whether they like it or not. This, of course, must be done with a "might is right" frame of mind: lots of men with guns show up and take everything you have "for the glory of the motherland," as the Soviets might have said".To begin, I would like to note that the forced 'collectivization' was carried out by a state, whereas communism itself is stateless, as I defined in my opening argument. Therefore, the USSR was not even communist by definition. If anything, the USSR was a centrally planned socialist state[1] that contorted Marx's theory into something they could use to justify the heinous and vile acts they commited in the name of the Russian people.Other socialist states, like China, also commited these atrocities for the exact same reason. Here is a good parallel to demonstrate as to why they were not communists, if the definition argument was not clear enough.In the High Middle Ages, the Catholic Church called for massive crusades against the muslims in the Middle East to 'free the holy land'[2]. That they needed to fight in the name of Christendom against the Islamic menace. Does this necessarily mean that these Popes were Christians? That Christ would approve of their jingoistic attitude? No, they are not Christians like Christ envisioned, and by Christ's definition of a Christian (I know, Christ didn't exactly define what a Christian was, just stay with me).So, if we compare this parallel to communism. We can infer that people like Stalin and Mao were using 'communism' as a guise to justify their monstrous abuse of the people. Promising them the falsehood that the state would eventually wither away and make way for a land ruled solely by the people. So, by Marx's definition, these people were only glorified fascists of the worst kind.Therefore, we cannot call these people and these countries 'communist' because, by definition, they are not communists.Also, I would like to point out that my opponent pretty much just copy/pasted his entire argument from the sources he provided. Which is itself practical plagiarism.Sources:1- http://en.wikipedia.org...2- http://en.wikipedia.org...