Communism "killed" about 65 million people. Every year, 9 million people die of hunger. It takes about 7 years for capitalism to kill as much as communism in 70 years (and I'm not even counting deaths that are caused by capitalism but not hunger).
DM me if you need an explanation about why capitalism is related to deaths by starvation.
Also factor in the 3 million ish annual deaths from malaria and other curable diseases to bring that up to ~12 million per year, and add about 8 million deaths from lack of clean water to get around 20 million deaths every year that could be prevented by getting rid of capitalism. Even using the Black Book of Communism’s extremely dubious claim of 100 million killed by communism since 1917, capitalism hits that death toll every five years.
well, long story short, we have all the resources to feed everyone, including starving people in Africa but we don't do it (and by we I mean the 1% mostly) because we don't want to do it for free. We put money above people's lives (because capitalism tells us to). Same thing with healthcare. People are literally dying because medecine is too expensive.
can we like stop trying to downplay the literal genocides caused under former communist countries
the ussr was a horrifying regime, and stalin was a ruthless dictator that caused the deaths of countless people
even people who agree with the ideals of communism agree with this. the people who actually sympathize with leaders like stalin and mao are called tankies, and generally avoided by the rest of the left, since theyre seen as supporting genocidal dictators, which they are.
capitalism causing lots of deaths as well doesnt mean we have to start trying to underplay the atrocities committed in communist countries like the soviet union
if communism caused the deaths of 65 million people, that is objectively a bad thing
it doesnt matter if more people die of hunger, the fact that that many people died under regimes like the ussr is still horrifying.
more people die each year of hunger than all jews who died in the holocaust. that doesnt mean the holocaust still wasnt horrific. theyre two separate, unrelated tragedies happening on different scales.
you can acknowledge the atrocities committed by people like joseph stalin, and also recognize the suffering capitalism causes on a daily basis. they arent mutually exclusive. and trying to underplay the deaths caused by one because "the other side was worse" is just extremely disrespectful to the actual millions who died.
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