Thomas Sowell likes to cherry pick his facts.

After the communist purges and massacres the living standards went up in Russia and eastern Europe.

At the end of WW1 (~1919) these regions were agrarian pheasant societies, which had not been industrialized.

They were functionally caught up to western Europe by WW2. Somewhat lagging, but were undeniably technically capable societies.

A countries cannot become a fully industrialized society without tremendous improvements in the living standards of workers.
These were modern industrial societies.

"Getting rid of capitalist 'exploiters' in Communist countries did not raise the living standards of workers, even to levels common in many capitalist countries, where workers were presumably still being exploited, as Marxists conceived the term."

It is obvious that Thomas Sowell is factually incorrect in this assessment.

In fact, in the early 90's Western European corporations openly discussed in business journals their excitement about the opening of the labor markets in eastern countries.

They were excited, because they could move their factories to the east and take advantage of highly educated cheap technical expertise and labor.

The additional benefit to this was it would also undermine "the privileged and overpaid western workers". Us.

The same was done to the US by the cheap labor and educated workers in China, because it would also undermine "the privileged and overpaid western workers".
And we all now agree that it did.

Now I'm not a "socialist" or "communist, or whatever passes for "capitalism" in the west (it isn't capitalism).

Both "Communist" countries and "Capitalist" countries exploit their working class.

These propagandists will cherry pick specific examples to suit their interests.
Unfortunately, most people don't know the actual history to recognize the falsehoods.

The reality is the BANKSTERS own both sides of the "Communist" vs. "Capitalist" dialectic.

The middle ground does exist, and it can benefit the average person if they understand how the system has been used against them.

The Banks owned the Soviet Union. The Banks own NATO.

We are being played.

The main point I'm making is we need to recognize propaganda when we see it.
This is divide and conquer propaganda.
It's a threat that suggests that you've never had it so good and that things can only get worse.

I agree that things will get worse.

But not because of "communism" or whatever, but because TPTB are in the beginning stages of "The Great Economic Reset" per the World Economic Forum.

They're in the early stages of destroying the global economy/society and have detailed plans to rebuild it to suit their interests; under the guise of "COVID-19".
This is happening right now.

IT'S TIME TO WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO US ALL!!!