Communism

:This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. For issues regarding Communist organizations, see the Communist party article. For issues regarding Communist Party-run states, see Communist state.

Criticism of communism

Main article: Criticisms of communism.

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A diverse array of writers and political activists have published anticommunist work, such as Soviet bloc dissidents Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vaclav Havel; economists Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman; and historians and social scientists Hannah Arendt, Robert Conquest, Daniel Pipes and R. J. Rummel, to name a few. Some writers such as Conquest go beyond attributing large-scale human rights abuses to Communist regimes, presenting events occurring in these countries, particularly under Stalin, as an argument against the ideology of communism itself.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Vaclav Havel - Friedrich Hayek - Ludwig von Mises - Milton Friedman - Hannah Arendt - Robert Conquest - Daniel Pipes - R. J. Rummel

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It is argued that these the criticisms of communism are valid arguments against certain communist parties, and that not all of them are valid against communism. And, the many communist parties outside of the Soviet_Bloc (ie: communist parties in Latin American, European, Asia and Eastern Europe but not within USSR) differed greatly, therefore no single criticism fits all.

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Communist parties - Soviet_Bloc - Latin American - European - Asia - Eastern Europe - USSR

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