So, if people are free to talking openly about genocide, what's the problem with pro-rape and pro-paedophila speech?
This isn't even a slippery slope, genocide is already the bottom of the slope.
Full anything is not workable, because it would require perfect humans to cooperate perfectly to a perfect system. Same reason pure capitalism never worked and was never used because the flaws are too obvious. Some people are just too scummy to participate to a free legal market without attempting to cheat, hence our form of capitalism will always be ultra monitored by the government and regulation to protect interest outside of the market itself and socialist safety net to protect the smaller players. One pure system to rule them all is a fiction. The correct answer simply is why not use everything at once: A little bit of authority, a little bit of socialism, a little bit of capitalism and a little bit of freedom.
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It's a fairly common argument in Nazi apologist circles that's been going around for a long time. The "Final Solution" was literally the final solution because Hitler really just wanted to deport all the Jews to Madagascar or something, but those durn Allies made it too hard for him to fight a war of freedom AND send the Jews on a nice tropical vacation, so he just HAD to kill them all.
It's total bullshit to be sure.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
You realize that's essentially a propaganda piece, not a historical work, right? Even some of the co-authors have publicly disassociated with the primary editor (Courtois) because he misconstrued and exaggerated the work they provided him with for the book.
It also includes in those numbers deaths by famine as well as deliberate murders, just to pad the numbers. And then fails to make a comparable analysis of, say, democratic capitalism to compare the numbers to.
Which I don't have to do; Noam Chomsky already did, here; http://spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.htm
In India, between 1917 and 1979, over 100 million deaths, just there, as much to blame on Democratic Capitalism as the 100 million the Black Book blames on Communism. And tens of millions more, since 1979. And that's just India, and we can definitely expand that further.
If you apply the same methodology to "Democratic Capitalism" as the Black Book applies to Communism, then Democratic Capitalism has a far higher death toll. Which isn't me saying Democratic Capitalism is "worse". I'm saying the book's methodology is fucking stupid and deliberately misleading.