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by Turing_Machine 3726 days ago
How about communism? Communists have murdered somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 million people in the last century.

If some guy with idiosyncratic political views and a blog qualifies, surely communists must?

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This factually false. Preventable deaths as the result of government policy are atrocious, but they are not murder. "Capitalists" would not come out looking good either if the deaths that resulted from government policy in capitalist countries were called "capitalist murders."

EDIT: To be clear, I'm not saying the gulags weren't murder, or that the Holodomor wasn't murder. I'm saying the only way you get to canards like "communists murdered 100 million people" (100 million is a lot of people) is including people who died as the result of poor central planning in situations where there is no evidence for genocidal or repressive intent.

I'm saying the only way you get to canards like "communists murdered 100 million people" (100 million is a lot of people) is including people who died as the result of poor central planning in situations where there is no evidence for genocidal or repressive intent.

If you lock someone in a room, prevent him from leaving, and don't give him food, he will die, and you will be (correctly) charged with murder.

Can you name the capitalist countries that have murdered millions of their own citizens for us? Or even one such country? Nazi Germany was an authoritarian socialist regime, so don't even try going there.

Thanks.

You are deeply ignorant about modern history and your posts are thinly veiled ideological statements. It would be better for everyone if you didn't post.
Surely this is about as rationally meaningful as counting the number of deaths caused by people who nominally identify as Christian and basing your opinion of all Christians on that.