"Communism is the worst form of low class life."

The USSR took a country of illiterate peasants, industrialized it in a decade, defeated the Nazis, put the first satellite and human in space, and guaranteed free housing, healthcare, and education for 300 million people. Cuba, a tiny blockaded island, has a higher life expectancy than the US and produces more doctors per capita than any country on Earth. If that's "the worst form of low class life," I'd love to see what you call the tent cities of Los Angeles.

"No communist country has ever made it work."

China lifted 800 million people out of poverty in 40 years, the largest and fastest reduction of poverty in human history. Vietnam went from a war-devastated peasant society to a middle-income manufacturing powerhouse while maintaining public ownership of land and state control of the financial system. Cuba survived a 60-year blockade from the most powerful empire in human history and still outperforms its capitalist neighbors in health and education metrics. These are facts, not opinions.

"If you think China is communist you are a fool."

China is a socialist market economy with public ownership of the commanding heights. The CPC controls the banks, the land, and the strategic industries. Foreign capital operates under strict conditions and can be expelled at will. The fact that Western corporations do business in China does not make China capitalist any more than a lion eating a gazelle makes the lion a herbivore. China uses capital as a tool. That's not capitalism. That's statecraft.

"Companies don't get subsidized by tax dollars in capitalism."

Lockheed Martin. Boeing. The entire fossil fuel industry. The auto bailout of 2008. The airline bailout of 2020. The US government subsidizes corporations to the tune of hundreds of billions annually. What you're describing isn't capitalism in theory; it's capitalism in practice. The privatization of profit and socialization of risk is the defining feature of actually existing capitalism.

"Did the USSR have oligarchs who profited from the gulag?"

No. The gulag was a brutal system of forced labor camps, many of which produced resources like timber and minerals. But the camp commandants didn't become billionaires. They were state employees who lived in state housing and drove state cars. The Soviet Union had bureaucratic privilege, not private accumulation. The oligarchs emerged after 1991, when the Soviet state was dismantled and its assets were looted by the very people who now own your government. The oligarchs you're vaguely referencing are a product of the capitalist restoration you're arguing for.

"You've been brainwashed."

You just claimed that the USSR had oligarchs, that China isn't communist, that capitalism doesn't have subsidies, and that communism always fails while ignoring every counterexample. You then linked a conspiracy theory article about resource extraction and AI replacing labor. The only person here who's been fed a narrative and swallowed it whole is you. The difference is I can name the books I've read and the history I've studied. You can only name your fears.