Everything you wanted to know about communism or about our Party but were afraid to ask. And were probably lied to about anyway. Communism is a bit of a mystery for some and certainly not understood by many who get their information from the bourgeois media. So send us your questions below and we answer them as soon as possible.
Reddit has a few good groups for questions.
- Communism 101
- DebateCommunism
- Communism
And there are various Discord servers associate with the above subreddits.
You may find answers here too otherwise you can send us your questions in the form below:
SECTION 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE
- RESOURCE 1: Fraud, Famine, and Fascism by Douglas Tottle
- RESOURCE 2: The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933 by Mark Tauger
- RESOURCE 3: Natural Disaster and Human Actions in the Soviet Famine of 1931–1933 by Mark Tauger
- RESOURCE 4: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 by Davies and Wheatcroft
- RESOURCE 5: Lies Concerning the History of the Soviet Union by Mario Sousa
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE SOVIET UNION REPRESSED AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
- RESOURCE 1: The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
- RESOURCE 2: Human Rights in the Soviet Union by Albert Syzmanski
- RESOURCE 3: Another View of Stalin by Ludo Martens
- RESOURCE 4: Stalinist Terror: New Perspectives by Getty and Manning
- RESOURCE 5: Origins of the Great Purges by J. Arch Getty
- RESOURCE 6: The Road to Terror by J. Arch Getty
- RESOURCE 7: Other studies by historian by J. Arch Getty
- RESOURCE 8: The Legacy of Stalinism by “brown-eggs”
- RESOURCE 9: Khrushchev Lied by Grover Furr
- RESOURCE 10: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
- RESOURCE 11: Blood Lies: The Evidence that Every Accusation against Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ Is False by Grover Furr
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 3: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE EASTERN BLOC HAD NO DEMOCRACY
- RESOURCE 1: Soviet Communism: A New Civilization by Sydney and Beatrice Webb
- RESOURCE 2: Is the Red Flag Flying? by Albert Syzmanski
- RESOURCE 3: Socialism Betrayed by Keeran and Kenny
- RESOURCE 4: Life and Terror in Stalin’s Russia, 1934–1941 by Robert Thurston
- RESOURCE 5: Democracy, East Germany, and the Berlin Wall by Stephen Gowans
- RESOURCE 6: The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism by V.L. Allen
- RESOURCE 7: The 1936 Soviet Constitution
- RESOURCE 8: Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 4: SOCIALISM IS AN ECONOMIC FAILURE
- RESOURCE 1: Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work? by Stephen Gowans
- RESOURCE 2: From Farm to Factory by Robert Allen
- RESOURCE 3: The Rise of Socialism by William Foster
- RESOURCE 4: We Lived Better Then by Stephen Gowans
- RESOURCE 5: The Need for Planning by Joseph Ball
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 5: EVERYBODY HATED SOCIALISM
- RESOURCE 1: Homesick for a Dictatorship
- RESOURCE 2: 60% of Russians Want Communism Back
- RESOURCE 3: Former Soviet Countries See More Harm from Breakup
- RESOURCE 4: Russians say Aug 1991 events are tragedy, not triumph of democracy
- RESOURCE 5: Struggling Romanians Yearn for Communism
- RESOURCE 6: Tajikistan Pines for Old Soviet Union Strength
- RESOURCE 7: Referendum on the Preservation of the USSR
- RESOURCE 8: Central Asia in Nostalgia for the Soviet Period
- RESOURCE 9: Freest Under Czech Communism!
- RESOURCE 10: Seven Myths about the USSR by Stephen Gowans
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 6: LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM WAS TERRIBLE
- RESOURCE 1: An experiment in living socialism: Bulgaria then and now by F.S.
- RESOURCE 2: Growing Up Under Communism Was The Happiest Time Of My Life by Zsuzsanna Clark
SECTION 2: THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: MAO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
- RESOURCE 1:Did Mao Really Kill Millions in the Great Leap Forward? by Joseph Ball
- RESOURCE 2:Monster or Liberator? by Carlos Martinez
- RESOURCE 3: The Battle for China’s Past by Mobo Gao
- RESOURCE 4: Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s “Mao: The Unknown Story” by Benton and Chun
- RESOURCE 5: How did Mao manage to kill ~78 million people? by Godfree Roberts
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CHINA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
- RESOURCE 1: The Rise of the Chinese People’s Communes by Anna Louise Strong
- RESOURCE 2: The Chinese Road to Socialism: Economics of the Cultural Revolution by E. L. Wheelwright
- RESOURCE 3: Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
- RESOURCE 4: Shenfan: The Continuing Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton
- RESOURCE 5: Turning Point in China: An Essay on the Cultural Revolution by William Hinton
SECTION 3: CUBA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: CHE WAS A BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER
- RESOURCE 1: Che: A Revolutionary Life by Jon Lee Anderson
- RESOURCE 2: Debunking the ‘Che Guevara Was Racist!’ Lie by Cuervo Rojo
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CUBA HAS NO DEMOCRACY AND IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE
- RESOURCE 1: 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
- RESOURCE 2: Cuba: A Revolution in Motion by Isaac Saney
- RESOURCE 3: Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion by Arnold August + http://www.democracyintheus.com/
- RESOURCE 4: Cuban Democracy Fact Sheet
- RESOURCE 5: All in This Together: Cuba’s Participatory Democracy
- RESOURCE 6: The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba’s Municipal Elections by Arnold August
- RESOURCE 7: 2002 Cuban Constitution
- RESOURCE 8: Work and Democracy in Socialist Cuba by Linda Fuller
SECTION 4: THE DPRK
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: NORTH KOREANS BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND THEY THINK KIM JONG-UN IS IMMORTAL
- RESOURCE 1: Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies by Alyx Mayer
- RESOURCE 2: Anti-DPRK Propaganda War – a Cavalcade of Comedy by Red Youth
- RESOURCE 3: Tourist who took camera inside North Korea shocked by ‘ordinary’ lives of citizens
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE DPRK IS A FASCIST MONARCHY
- RESOURCE 1: Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea by Vince Sherman
- RESOURCE 2: How to Think about Socialism in Korea
- RESOURCE 3: Understanding North Korea by Stephen Gowans
- RESOURCE 4: A Model of Democratic and Participatory Socialist Planning by MasCapital
- RESOURCE 5: Constitution of the DPRK
- RESOURCE 6: Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development by Brun and Hersch
- RESOURCE 7: Interview: Understanding and Defending North Korea
- RESOURCE 8: Democracy: US vs DPRK – Towards the Annihilation of a Narrative
- RESOURCE 9: The secret genocide in South Korea you’ve probably never heard of
SECTION 5: THE PEOPLE’S (SOCIALIST) REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: ALBANIA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
- RESOURCE 1: Pickaxe and Rifle: The Story of the Albanian People by William Ash
- RESOURCE 2: Insights into Socialist Albania from ‘Pickaxe and Rifle’