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If we are going to start tallying the body counts of economic ideologies, I think you will find capitalism and its inherent imperialism to be very much in the l

by cultus 7y ago

If we are going to start tallying the body counts of economic ideologies, I think you will find capitalism and its inherent imperialism to be very much in the lead.

kick 7y ago
I think the above comment was written to the tune of "Jokingly trying to employ reverse-psychology to get Hacker News users to read literature" rather than serious. No one uses the term "free thinker" unironically.
- Talanes 7y ago
  It's also rare to hear an unironic call to "dumb down."
jonmartinwest 7y ago
Lenin, Hitler, Mao, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Il-sung were all socialists. Name a capitalist with the same body count?
- cultus 7y ago
  Winston Churchill. Also, Iraq was allied with the US and other capitalist interests and had effectively a crony-capitalist economy.