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[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

think of a number that u think communism killed between 1920 and 2020 just whatever u can imagine just add up all the made up numbers u have seen in all ur favorite propaganda and keep that number in mind and open the spoiler below.

spoilerlast year more than 20 million people died in capitalist countries from perfectly preventable causes such as starvation and disease and thats without even counting how many people were murdered by imperialist countries and their puppet around the world to maintain capitalism.

idk what number u came up with but i grantee u it was less than 2 billion. and ur number is an exaggeration while mine in an under estimation.

[-] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 7 months ago

The trick is that when people die under capitalism, the blame falls on a "corrupt" individual so the system is never accountable.

[-] CableMonster@lemmy.ml -5 points 7 months ago

The issue is what is defined as capitalism and communism. If by capitalism you mean the most powerful countries with the best weapons and foreign policy that kills people, then I guess capitalism kills lots of people. The caveat is that if a communist governmnet ever got that same amount of power, they would kill even more people. The issue with communism is that you cant disagree with it, whereas you can be as communist as you want in a capitalist country, typically.

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

That's only an issue if you're illiterate. Capitalism is defined as a dictatorship of the capital owning class, and communism is defined as a dictatorship of the working class. It's not complicated. Meanwhile, disagreements that can't translate into tangible action are worthless. Capitalist countries regularly assassinate communists who actually gain political power. See Fred Hampton and MLK as primary examples of this.

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago
[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

20 million times 100 years is 2000 million or 2 American billions

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

Hmm "last year" data might be very different over 100 years. It tends to increase towards later dates so its weird to assume its constant

[-] linkhidalgogato@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago

true, i wast trying to say that capitalism killed that many people in that specific period of time just that over a period of a 100 years at the current rate of murder it would be way more than the ridiculous number of death attributed to communism during that time. but i totally see how it could be misunderstood

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