It’s very common to see on the internet people listing supposed deaths that happened in socialist countries, and normally because of “political assassinations” and “starvations”.

I know there are some lists about United States atrocities but do we have lists about captalism in general (and unlike theirs lists, with actual sources?)

  • ☭CommieWolf☆
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    2 years ago

    Seeing as how the average reactionary method to measure deaths caused by socialism is “Every death in a socialist country, is caused by socialism”, we can therefore assume every death in a capitalist country is caused by capitalism. Since we already know the total death toll of socialism is roughly 100 million (according to most reactionary sources), we can therefore assume that if you took the total number of deaths that happened in the 20th century and subtract 100 million, we should get our answer, since the world at this time is split generally between socialist and capitalist societies.

    General estimates say that around 5.5 billion people died in total in the 20th century, so take away the 100 million caused by socialism, and viola, your capitalist death toll amounts to around 5.4 Billion deaths.

    /s

    In all seriousness this sort of counting kills caused by how society is organized is going to be near impossible to calculate accurately considering the vagueness that comes with such a question.

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      Lol this subtracting thing ia actually a really funny way to call out their dishonesty when calculating deaths