Plus if you look at the GDP per capita of many communist countries like the PRC, Vietnam, and USSR, they are much lower than a capitalist country such as America, South Korea, or Japan. What is this GDP per capita I hear you ask? Good question, since GDP per capita is the GDP of a country divided by the total amount of people in it. Guess how much China's is. 6,807 US dollars in 2013. a population of about 1 billion and one of the best economies in the world. Has by far one of the lowest. Russias GDP during its Soviet era was 3,095 US dollars, compare that to the US GDP per capita of about 23,000 dollars in the Soviet era. Since then after the fall of the USSR the still autocratic, but much more capitalist friendly Russian GDP per capita has increased 7x its Soviet amount. China with newer capitalist policies of "free economic zones" in places like Hong Kong and Macau have let the country shoot up from about 310 dollars per person to about 6,800 US dollars. Meanwhile the United States the GDP per capita as of 2013 is twice the amount it was in the Soviet era. Japans GDP per capita is about 39,000 USD, nearly twice that of Russias.



The argument that "communism is bad" can be broken by this one economic statement, showing that capitalist countries have it better. If you really like communism this much I dont get why you dont go and live in China for a year or two and see what its like, and you tell em how you feel about communism afterwards.