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by megaman22 2886 days ago
China is an awful example. State-directed socialist policies led to one of the worst losses of life in human history.
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Life expectancy went up during communist rule. See https://www.google.co.uk/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9... There are plenty of capitalist states and policies that have resulted in huge amounts of loss of life.