Argue or provide evidence that capitalism or anticommunism have caused far more damage
“WHATABOUTISM”
Attribute the killings or other extreme measures to something other than communism
“LOLOL NOT REAL COMMUNISM U SAY”
Say that the tolls are massively inflated or provide evidence that they are
“LITERALLY HOLOCAUST DENIAL ONLY WORSE”
Provide evidence of communists helping and benefiting other people, or attribute historical disasters to natural or external factors
“TANKIE PROPAGANDA”
Screw it, concede that communist revolutionaries have had to violently suppress millions of counterrevolutionaries and probably caused substantial collateral damage while doing so
“YOUR IDEALOGY DOESNT WORK IF U HAVE TO USE VIOLENCE OR GET FAMINES OR ANYTHING BAD EVER HAPPENS FOR ANY RESON AT ALL…EPIC FAIL!!!”
Yawn.
No wonder it’s usually the leftoid noobs who waste their time trying to reason with these types. They just haven’t accumulated enough experience to realize that anticommies never wanted to have a conversation in the first place.
As far as I’m concerned, anticommunists are only good for trolling and nothing else. Prove me wrong, if you wish.
Don’t argue with anticommunists on the internet with the aim to change their minds. Argue with anticommunists on the internet for the consideration of the silent stranger on the internet who’s watching the exchange, and who is still forming or reconsidering their ideas and ideology.
Point out the stupidity/inconsistency/lie in the anticommunist take; leave links to evidence and resources not to prove anything to the dickhead dropping the take, but as further reading for the potential new comrade who’s silently watching.
I really hope that most liberals aren’t like this in real life
Afaik most are just “uh huh” and changing the topic.
I’ll take that over a rabid anticommunist
Nah. Mostly pointless arguing about communism with people that understand neither capitalism nor communism and haven’t read a word of Marx or any Marxist.
Had someone tell me Das Kapital is a work of linguistics and an opinionpiece void of empiricism. Naturally they hadn’t read a word of it or any political/economic theory ever for that matter, but were completely adamant about their position.
You can’t argue with someone like that. Most libs are like this. They’ll just nod it off or go on anticommunist tirades they’ve picked up somewhere from someone.
It’s why, before the world Left got defanged, Communists just used to help those people answer the ages-old question: “Is there a god?” - if you know what I mean.
Now a lot of people who call themselves communists or socialists want to do things ‘right’, even if it means being nothing more than doomed moral victors and this allowed the rise of these people.
deleted by creator
Yes! We need to stop wasting energy talking to reactionaries and do propaganda and agitation with the working class. The ones not brainwashed, just living their lives.
We can move a non politically active person to the left, but can’t do the same to a anti-communist.
