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0 pointskomali21h ago0 comments

What specific horrible evils do you mean? And how do you attribute them to, specifically, organizing an economy along communistic lines?

I ask because if we can take a country with a communist economy, or striving for one, and blame all its evils on communism itself, I have a few things I'd like to point out as being the horrors of capitalism:

1. Atlantic slave trade - millions dead (many on the ships), millions enslaved

2. Settler colonialism and indigenous genocide - British empire, all over the world

3. Congo Free State, Leopold II - 1 to 5 million dead via colonial extraction regime

4. British India famines - 3 million dead

5. Irish Famine - 1 million dead

6. Opium wars - directly caused by British using the military to defend market access. 100k dead, devastating to Qing China for a century

7. Indonesian anti-communist massacres - 500k-1mil alleged "communists" killed after the USA, UK, and Australian intelligence agencies propagandized against them

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adamtaylor_1359m ago

The specific evil in my mind was the Great Leap Forward, but there are dozens we could draw from history.

And I attribute them to communism because that's literally how history attributes them, though obviously pro-Communism thinkers would disagree.

Pay081h ago

> What specific horrible evils do you mean?

The 1956 student massacres in Hungary, where my grandma was almost killed. The Holodomor, the various "Russianization" campaigns, the Jewish Autonomous Oblast, The Great Leap Forward, etc.

komali2OP1h ago

It sounds like Communism, Capitalism, and Fascism are all very bad, then. Maybe we can try something else? Do you have any ideas?

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