Originally Posted by
Karsius
The most funny part of the ''communism killed 100M people'' is not about whether it is true or the number has been exaggerated. The funny part is coming as a point to justify the ''failure'' of a set economic system or most usually to show that capitalism works in terms of morality. The point is even more funny when you realise most of the time it comes from US people/media etc.
But really, how many people has capitalism killed ? (hint biggest contributor yours favourite US of A)
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, exploitation of Africa by colonization, military coups (successful or failed) staged or backed by the US such as in Chile (Pinochet),Cuba, Lebanon, Nicaragua Greece etc.
If the list is not long enough (with a lot more slaughters being left out) then I could go even further and remind you that Nazism is a capitalist based economical system, aka capitalism in its more violent, true form deprived of the classy excuse modern capitalist states (US first of all), use to justify their crimes or invading other countries for economical exploitation, as is the enforcement of "democracy or human rights".
In other words this point is funny coming from defenders of an economical system that has caused millions of deaths all across the globe in the last two centuries. Mind that I do not imply that people did not die under "socialism". Mistakes where made, tragedies happened and you have to acknowledge that to avoid same mistakes in the future.
Still though, the effort to create a society free of exploitation does not solely identify as USSR, China, Cuba or w/e. The idea of communism has never been fully implemented and progressed enough (capitalism has developed to its current state in 200 years not 50) and history books are still open for the grabs.