Anyone celebrating Communism on its hundredth anniversary should be honest about its deadly track record

Nothing to Celebrate

A century after the Bolshevik revolution, we should remember Communism’s stark legacy—including mass starvation.

by Pierre Yared

Anyone celebrating Communism on its hundredth anniversary should be honest about its deadly track record, rooted in a set of failed ideas—such as abandoning free markets and relying on government bureaucrats to distribute resources, thus making entire societies vulnerable to the effects of even small human errors. Between 1959 and 1961, those errors cost 30 million Chinese lives.

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