Did communism kill 100 million people? Was Hitler really a communist? Is there no difference between Lenin and Stalin? Right-wing pundits and politicians always throw blood-curdling statistics and historical ‘facts’ to prove that communism is pure evil, while capitalism is the best system that could ever exist. In this video, leading communist Fred Weston takes on three popular right-wing commentators, and separates fact from fiction.

Some of these reactionary culture warriors have made entire careers out of ‘proving’ that communism could never work; and has caused chaos, death and misery whenever it has been tried. There are whole libraries of history and political theory books filled with bile ‘proving’ that communism is synonymous with terror and dictatorship. Elon Musk, the richest man on earth with the ear of the President of the USA, spends nearly all of his time demonising socialism and boosting right-wing politicians on the social media platform that he owns. 

Especially in times such as these, with inequality, war and poverty rampant, the capitalists need to smear and discredit any possible alternative to their rotten system: revolution and communism most of all. But looking at the facts not only demolishes these slanders, it reveals that capitalism is the deadliest system ever to exist, responsible for death on a scale that dwarfs even the most outlandish anti-communist propaganda.

Watch as Fred takes on Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, Alice Weidel and Jordan Peterson, answering their reactionary lies with communist facts and logic! 

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00:04:32 Ben Shapiro: “Capitalism is the best possible system and communism killed 100 million people.”

00:32:53 Elon Musk and Alice Weidel: “Hitler was a communist.”

00:52:28 Jordan Peterson: “Lenin was no better than Stalin.”

Sources:

Deaths from poverty under capitalism:

https://www.cdc.gov/global-water-sanitation-hygiene/about/about-global-hygiene.html

https://www.wfp.org/news/world-wealth-9-million-people-die-every-year-hunger-wfp-chief-tells-food-system-summit

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-caused-by-vaccine-preventable-diseases-over-time

https://www.unicef.org.uk/campaign-with-us/child-health-report/ 

Declassified Soviet figures on gulag deaths and purge victims:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/10/russia.lukeharding 

Eyewitness account of Trotskyist at Vorkuta:

https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/isr/vol24/no03/vorkuta.htm 

The truth about the Black Book of Communism and the Black Book of Capitalism:

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/black-book-communism-courtois-history

https://libcom.org/article/interview-black-book-capitalism-robert-kurz 

Hitler on Marxism and communism:

https://famous-trials.com/hitler/2529-1923-interview-with-adolf-hitler 

Capitalist’s support for Hitler:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/hitler-millionaire-backers-how-german-elite-facilitated-rise-nazis-third-reich/ 

https://www.economist.com/culture/2022/04/30/the-german-industrialists-who-aided-and-abetted-the-nazi-regime 

Political persecution of communists by Nazi regime:

White, Joseph Robert (2009). "Introduction to the Early Camps". Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA). 

Lenin on Stalin and the Soviet bureaucracy:

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1923/mar/02.htm 

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/dec/testamnt/index.htm