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century of poverty, slavery, and hundred million deaths I am genuinely curious about where you get the figure of 100 million deaths from. I also believe that a
by papaf 9y ago
century of poverty, slavery, and hundred million deaths
I am genuinely curious about where you get the figure of 100 million deaths from. I also believe that all the societes that had slaves were capitalist ones.
But we can both agree that communism leads to poverty although the poorest countries in the world are failed states rather than communist:
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in-the-world.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-poorest-countries-in...
- blfr 9y agoBlack Book of Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
- bjl 9y agoIn other words, one of the least respected books in modern historical scholarship.
- barry-cotter 9y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communis... The highest death tolls that have been documented in communist states occurred in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong, and in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. The estimates of the number of non-combatants killed by these three regimes alone range from a low of 21 million to a high of 70 million.
- jhbadger 9y agoThe death toll of communism is debatable because a lot of deaths in the Soviet Union and China were due to famine, and people can argue how much of it was due to the inefficiency of collective farming, or deliberate starving of people the government didn't like, or just bad luck. As for "all societies that had slaves were capitalist" -- it is unclear what you mean by that. Certainly the US was capitalist and had slavery, but many (indeed most) pre-capitalist societies had slavery.
- UncleEntity 9y ago> I also believe that all the societes that had slaves were capitalist ones. German POWs were kept as slaves until, IDK, the 80's?
- maxxxxx 9y agoThey all came home around 1955