For sure, communism lead to a lot of starvation in China and the former Soviet Union. Ironically, though its communistic mechanisms that are leading to a hardware revolution in China right now. To be clear, China have adopted some capitalistic reforms that have raised a lot of Chinese people out of poverty. You see this in places like Shanghai.

However, they still hold on to some communistic principles such as in the area of intellectual property rights. The United States favors patent protection for intellectual property while China favors open source in their intellectual property rights and forced technology transfer.

Open Source is not new, as the United States started the open source revolution in software a long time ago, but China has an open source revolution in hardware. The U.S. open source is voluntary and the Chinese open source is mandatory. Open source is very anti market. It drives intellectual property toward almost zero price and that is why in the U.S. we don't really pay for operating systems and apps any more. Google and Facebook are two of the largest companies in the world and they charge users for any of their services. You get to use stuff that you didn't buy that's communism in practice if not in principle.

China has open source in hardware which has driven down the price of hardware to extremely low levels. This open source hardware has led to China being the hotbed for hardware innovation and hardware manufacturing.

The United States has more software innovation, but again that is due to us adopting open source in software a long time ago which is a very communistic value. The moral of the story is that science is not communist or capitalist. Science is just science and probably a mixed system of communism and capitalism is optimal for science.

The results will speak for themselves when China takes both a hardware and software lead-especially in the area of Artificial Intelligence where forced data sharing will make Chinese AI better than US AI because they will just have bigger training data sets than our "Big Data". They also have 5 times the United States population so their algorithms will be able to mine more data from more users and consolidate more of it because of force data sharing via the government. Thanks for commenting!