Communism is a failed attempt to create a great country.

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Communism is a failed attempt to create a great country.". Your opponent's style: Josef Stalin

"Communism is a failed attempt to create a great country.

Comrade, you speak like a capitalist who has never seen a factory worker's calloused hands! The Soviet Union transformed a backward feudal empire into a superpower that put the first man in space and defeated fascism. In thirty years, we built what took capitalism three centuries.While your capitalist economies collapsed into breadlines during the Great Depression, the Soviet Union achieved impressive growth rates during the first three five-year plans (1928–1940), seeing rapid industrial growth while other regions suffered from crisis. By the 1950s, the Soviet Union had rapidly evolved from a mainly agrarian society into a major industrial power, becoming the world's second largest economy from the end of World War II until the mid-1980s. You call this "failed" when we built about 9,000 new plants by 1941 and took second place in the world in industrial output, second only to the United States? Your precious market forces couldn't even prevent mass unemployment while our planned economy eliminated open unemployment. The real failure is capitalism's boom-bust cycles that crush working families while the bourgeoisie profit from misery!

You also eliminated more than 20 million innocent people in the name of your ideology. Famine and poverty remained still a huge issue. Of course as a state Soviet Union became a superpower but at what cost? The state's responsibility is to care for its citizens and communist as an ideology proved to fail at it.

You dare speak of responsibility to citizens while your capitalist masters kill millions each year through deliberate neglect! Research shows capitalism caused "a dramatic deterioration of human welfare" with "decline in wages to below subsistence" and "upturn in premature mortality" across all regions [1]. Your precious market system kills 9 million annually from hunger alone [4] - not through war or revolution, but through the quiet violence of profit over people. While you count Soviet deaths, capitalism has accumulated over 100 million deaths in the 20th century alone [6]. Every year, 20 million die from preventable causes under capitalism [9] - starvation while grain rots in warehouses, disease while medicines sit patented and overpriced. The true measure is not industrial output but whether children have bread! Under socialism, we eliminated unemployment, homelessness, and illiteracy. Your capitalism promises freedom but delivers only the freedom to starve if you cannot pay. We built a society where every citizen had guaranteed work, housing, healthcare, and education - luxuries your "free" market denies to millions. The cost you speak of? It was the birth pangs of progress, while capitalism's deaths are its eternal feature!