Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

I'm your host Ann Comrade, Brett O'Shea, and today we have on two members of Proles of

the Roundtable, Ethan and Alex, to basically debunk and examine the logic of the popular

myth that we hear all the time that communism killed a hundred million people.

We talk about Stalin, we talk about Mao, we talk about the black book of communism, it's

really a wide-ranging conversation centered around that myth, how it got started, why

it's perpetuated, and by whom and whose interest, etc.

So I think it's really a good conversation and it's one of those conversations where we

debunk popular myths about communism to give people that are listening to tools to defend

themselves in their tradition against naysayers and critics who often rely on these really

lazy critiques that they've passively absorbed and sometimes we can easily destroy them,

but if we don't really have the information to do so, we can be stumped by relatively

bad faith criticism.

And so hopefully this acts as a tool to help people do that.

So here is our episode with Proles of the Roundtable talking about the myth that communism

killed a hundred million people.

My name is Ethan and I am a Marxist Leninist from Colorado Springs, Colorado.

I read a lot of books and I'm on the Proles of the Roundtable podcast.

Hey, this is Alex.

I'm also from Proles of the Roundtable and also this proletarian life.

I'm a full-time grad student for neuropsychology and I'm also Marxist Leninist from Colorado.

Wonderful.

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