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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb7tukz wrote

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[deleted] t1_jb7vj17 wrote

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb7w3q8 wrote

Zedong was in the mid-twentieth century, and communism has killed no less than 5x the number of people as Nasis/Fascism. Do some reading for yourself and learn which ideology has produced the higher body count.

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LionMcTastic t1_jb88hho wrote

A name you'll undoubtedly drop to defend a false correlation between economic systems and likelihood to commit crimes against humanity.

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AbigailFlippinfloppn t1_jb80xk9 wrote

A hero to over a billion people

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb81auu wrote

We're just gonna gloss over the 50,000,000 he let starve to death for the "good of China"?

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Bobisadrummer t1_jb8noee wrote

Care to tell me how many people capitalism has killed?

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb8zou6 wrote

I wouldn't care to guesstimate.

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Bobisadrummer t1_jb9i267 wrote

If only there was this thing that had the entirety of human knowledge and history, but I guess you don’t really give a shit about loss of life.

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb9iwdi wrote

Google is not going to give you that answer, Because outside of the theater of war, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, shit, even our own Civil War, taking the lives of "the enemy", there has never been an American leader, under whose sole authority, that has wilfully/purposely allowed/caused, as many as a 100 million of their own citizens to perish or outright slaughter them(Stalin, Kim, Zedong...).

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Bobisadrummer t1_jb9mgm2 wrote

You should learn the difference between type of governments and types of economic policies. Because you seem to be treating them as the same thing… they’re not. Communism isn’t a form of government, it is a type of economic policy.

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb9mysv wrote

Capitalism: economic policy. Democratic Republic: form of government.

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Bobisadrummer t1_jb9neg9 wrote

So then you should no trouble finding out how many deaths capitalism has caused.

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Chance_Bad_7437 t1_jb9pneg wrote

I wouldn't say no trouble... I would have to search the breadth of the Internet for many, many smaller examples. Good place to start would probablythe market crash preceding the great depression. And I will amend my comments regarding Russia and the deaths of those citizens, since under Stalin's watch a lot of those deaths were the results of his insanity and his struggle to keep power rather than failure of economic policy.

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