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The authors of The Black Book of Communism have also estimated that 9.3 million people were killed under communist rule in other states: 2 million in North Korea, 2 million in Cambodia, 1.7 million in Africa, 1.5 million in Afghanistan, 1 million in Vietnam, 1 million in Eastern Europe and 150,000 in Latin America.
[1] [2] Another central argument leveled against socialist systems based on economic planning is based on the use of dispersed knowledge. Socialism is unfeasible in this view because information cannot be aggregated by a central body and effectively used to formulate a plan for an entire economy, because doing so would result in distorted or ...
Here is the meaning of the year 1978. Communism, begun in 1917, could maintain itself approximately 60 years and reach its peak. So 1978 is the border line and afterward communism will decline; in the 70th year it will be altogether ruined. This is true. Therefore, now is the time for people who are studying communism to abandon it."
The Crucial Communism Teaching Act is a proposed United States law that would develop a high school curriculum with the purpose of teaching students about the history and dangers of communism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Introduced by Representative Salazar (R–FL) in the 118th Congress , the bill has passed the House by a vote of 327 - 62 on December 6, 2024.
On January 13, 2025, a federal judge ordered Patriot Front to pay approximately $2.7 million ($755,000 in damages and $2 million in punitive damages) to Charles M. Murrel III for violating his civil rights. [56] The group was alleged to have attacked Murrel, a black man, on July 2, 2022, during a march by the group in Boston. [56]
Houston’s mayor has replaced the city’s police chief, saying Wednesday it was the best thing for a law enforcement agency that’s still under intense scrutiny over why hundreds of thousands ...
J. Clews cites German, French and British estimates of the early 1960s on the amount of money spent in the world for communist propaganda and political activities in the non-communist world, estimating to about $2 billion, i.e., about $2 per person outside the communists states, with major spenders being the Soviet Union and the People's ...
The arrangement led to criticism on social media, with people asking why an organisation such as Amnesty would condone the use of non-disclosure agreements. Shaista Aziz, co-founder of the feminist advocacy group NGO Safe Space, questioned on Twitter why the "world's leading human rights organisation" was employing such contracts. [63]