• DarkCloud
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    5 hours ago

    Or you’re just not that familiar with Capitalist and Communist history.

    Killed by the British East India company famines in India and Bengal: 10 - 15 million (the company exported ALL the grain, even the grain farmers were paid with and living off. Gotta get those profits!).

    Killed by the Libertarian Congo Free State under King Leopald: 10 - 15 million (but the rubber business boomed).

    That’s 20 million to 30 million dead from Capitalism right there.

    Killed in the USSR Gulag system? 1.5 - 2 million. Most people survived the Gulag system (18 million went in, the majority walked out alive).

    Outside of that Communism had a lot of undesired and unintended famines largely contributed to by one conman scientist fabricating results to keep his job:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko#Consequences_of_Lysenko’s_views

    Capitalism has in all likelihood intentionally killed waaay more people than Communism (just by the numbers)… And if you know the history, this becomes more obvious. This comment doesn’t even cover the many wars by Capitalist nations pushed and carried out in the name of profit.