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"downsides"
by sparkzilla 9y ago
"downsides"
- ericd 9y agoLargest understatement I've seen in a while.
- cal5k 9y agoBetween Mao and Stalin alone you're probably talking 50-100MM deaths. That's one hell of a downside.
- noobermin 9y agoI assure you, capitalism has killed more people than that. We just don't call them victims of capitalism.
- rich-w-big-ego 9y agoAt least in Capitalism you are allowed to talk about your suffering. In the communist utopias of the 20th century, speaking of your suffering or trying to alleviate it was a capital offence.
- ericd 9y agoI'd really like to see your accounting to see if it's apples to apples, because the 50-100M is not counting people who died due to proxy wars, or anything like that, just people who lived directly under communist governments, and died directly because of communist policies that lead to things like mass starvation, and in many cases, because of literal death squads. It's surprising that people already seem to be forgetting how incredibly horrible communism was when implemented.
- dwaltrip 9y agoWe're going to need more than assurances to see your point.
- cal5k 9y agoYou can assure me all you'd like, but it's data that I find compelling. Many of the deaths in Maoist China were of starvation, a direct consequence of Mao's crackpot policies. Venezuela is a striking modern example of the same phenomenon. If you can find an example of a government's commitment to free markets directly resulting in the starvation of tens of millions of people your argument would be much more credible. EDIT: This is re: the comment below. We've reached HN's maximum allowable comment depth.