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.

I don’t have any specific links beyond the repo in the sidebar at the moment, but if we used the same standards as the anticommunist lists, the list for capitalism would include billions of people. If we just use categories that are clearly attributable to capitalism (far above the standards of organizations like the VoCMF):

• those who were denied life-saving medical treatment because they couldn’t afford it
• those who starved to death because they couldn’t afford food
• those who died because they couldn’t afford housing (e.g. from cold or diseases)
• those who died as a result of overworking in capitalist countries
• slaves in capitalist countries (mainly Amerika) who were murdered or died for various preventable reasons
• those who died because of imperialist wars (direct murders and the aftermath, including refugees caused by the wars)
• those who died due to the effects of sanctions
• those who died during and after an imperialist coup who wouldn’t have died otherwise
• etc.

I don’t think it’s possible to have a comprehensive list, but I know that there are at least estimates for things like the war on Iraq and the genocidal blockade against Cuba. If we include general suffering and not just deaths, the list would be many times longer

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/us_atrocities.html

Recently I was thinking about how we need more stuff like this but for the old colonial empires that went and did WWI. (Worth mentioning the only ones that have decolonized since then are Russia and Japan, & the latter is a US vassal in NATO. http://archive.today/2023.02.18-025337/https://www.chathamhouse.org/2022/06/nato-knows-asia-vital-protecting-global-security (Aus, NZ, SK, and Japan are functionally NATO now. Also, while you’re here, please note that article 5 has recently been completely thrown out the window as of the last NATO shindig in Brussels.)

Also we need a rundown of the times the IMF and World Bank have put the screws on countries.

A bulleted list like this is helpful because people really need and want an outline.

Unfortunately I can’t offer a Black Book of Capitalism as it were, however regarding the lists of U.S. atrocities, for any comrades reading who are unsure about the misadventures the Amerikan empire has gotten itself into:

Rogue State and Killing Hope by William Blum are must-reads. They’re accessible and easy-to-read. The only reason I would cautious against reading is if witnessing the most vile, inhuman information imaginable could send you tailspinning into near-psychosis, like it did me. Be careful, but if you want to be a well-educated anti-imperialist, pick them up. Rogue State is a comprehensive history up to the early 2000s of U.S. terrorist actions worldwide, while Killing Hope is more specifically about the U.S. intervening against popular people’s movements, notably many would-have-been communist revolutions.

You can find both online as free PDFs with a quick search. The CIA even graciously (mockingly) hosts Rogue State on its website, with a foreword thanking “Sheikh Blum, love Osama” or some other such character assassination filth.

There’s a rough analysis done on the death count of the USA on Monthly Review. There may be some more literature in their archives dealing with other capitalist countries.

This article deals with U.S. imperialism since World War 2. It is critical to acknowledge that U.S. imperialism emanates both ideologically and materially from the crime of colonialism on this continent which has killed over 100 million indigenous people and approximately 150 million African people over the past 500 years.

The exact death toll of U.S. imperialism is both staggering and impossible to know. What we do know is that since World War 2, U.S. imperialism has killed at least 36 million people globally in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, the Congo, Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Chad, Libya, East Timor, Grenada, Honduras, Iran, Pakistan, Panama, the Philippines, Sudan, Greece, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Somalia, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Palestine (see Appendix).

https://mronline.org/2022/06/06/mapping-u-s-imperialism/

Not a comprehensive list, but this is a good dive into the numbers.

This will do, if not accurate, still more than a billion in a few centuries.