• Logi@lemmy.world
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    Because a communist dictator coming into power is often followed by severe mismanagement and famine and the deaths of millions. It’s not the same sort of evil as killing people deliberately, but they’re equally dead.

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      So, all the famine, death and destruction caused by capitalist exploitation of third world countries like india and most of the africsn continent can also directly be tied back to capitalism right? Then its at least an intellectually consistent framework youre operating under.

      And doing that, the most conservative death toll, from WHO, is around 9 million excess deaths, A YEAR.

      multiply that by, again lets be conservative and lets say just the last 30 years. So from the middle of the nineties to now, thats 270 million excess deaths just from imposed famine like conditions. So not even counting other deaths following the exploitation of workers and ressources in third world countries

      if we just do the math, it seems capitalism is many orders of magnitude more deadly than even psychos like Stalin.

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        So, all the famine, death and destruction caused by capitalist exploitation of third world countries like india and most of the africsn continent can also directly be tied back to capitalism right?

        Sure, if that’s the comparison you’re making. But “capitalism” Vs Mao is not a comparison that makes sense.

        You could maybe count Churchill’s famine in India or his jolly little wars in Africa if you want to be argumentative. Or just accept that Mao caused millions of deaths through pig-headed incompetence and move on.

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          Im just being logically consistent here m8.

          you said “Because a communist dictator coming into power is often followed by severe mismanagement and famine and the deaths of millions. It’s not the same sort of evil as killing people deliberately, but they’re equally dead.”

          Mao killed tens of millions. Capitalism kills hundreds of millions, and continues to do so.

          If were gonna play the killscore game, might as well get the full scoreboard

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            Tsk. Mao is not the same sort of concept as capitalism. Has he killed more or fewer people than mosquitoes or bananas? What about too short green traffic lights? Moonless nights? All questions that make the same amount of sense. Mate.

            Added: Feel free to count a famine caused by a capitalist leader against that person’s score. That’s being consistent.

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              The death tolls im stating are coming from WHO, world health organization, and are the resultat of capitalist exploitation in the area.

              If the famines leading to the death of millions, are the fault of communism through the negligence of Mao as you stated earlier, then why tf is similar famines, created by the negligence of capitalist power holders, not the fault of capitalism?

              or do you want me to find out the names of the CEOs so we can put blame entirely on the individual? That would then mean that the deaths in china was only the fault of Mao as well, and has nothing to do with the communism.

              either the economic system is partly at fault or it isnt. Pick a lane pal.

              Tsk.