I'm a finance student and a capitalist. Is there any book that looks at the history of communism objectively, with very little opinion?

Question

My friend is a communist, and I gave him some books on capitalism. To be fair I wanna learn his side of the argument as well. To understand and better debate him. But I don't wanna read "the communist manifesto", like I said something objective. Thanks

Answer 1

Socialism and communism are 1st cousins under the skin varying ONLY in the degree and force with which they are applied.

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https://www.aei.org/publication/why-soci...

Answer 2

There is not much history on the economic system called communism. It is mostly focused on the totatarian political systems in former USSR and Chinese mainland euphemistically called "communism"

Answer 3

What business do you own, if you are a capitalist. Your tastes in reading are truly bourgeois.