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Communists didn't invent genocides, prisons, concentration camp, slavery, or forced labour. But they do hold the world record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th

by blfr 5y ago

Communists didn't invent genocides, prisons, concentration camp, slavery, or forced labour. But they do hold the world record. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism

trasz 5y ago
Because it’s not fashionable to count victims of the US. Otherwise you would be able to find a book on that, right?
- blfr 5y ago
  Quite the opposite. It's extremely fashionable nowadays. There are countless books on slavery, Indian genocide, and related subjects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project However, American imperialism simply doesn't hold a candle to Russian or Chinese communism. When it comes to genocide or other mass atrocities, communists are usually in a league of their own.
  - trasz 5y ago
    This is only about slavery - and even that doesn’t count the modern American Gulag of private prisons, or victims of American wars. Also, you’re repeating over and over the “doesn’t hold a candle”, but you failed to quote any numbers.
    - blfr 5y ago
      I assumed you would know since you're interested in the subject. In general, the whole colonization of the west was a fairly understaffed affair. For example, the French and Indian War involved well under 100 thousand combatants, maybe even just 50 thousand. At the same time, during the Seven Years' War in Europe over a million people were mobilized. In multiple battles Europeans took about as many casualties as the North American theatre had participants.
      - trasz 5y ago
        War in Iraq alone is about one million deaths. And given that you’re counting deaths of famine as victims of communism, you’d have to add victims of American sanctions around the world, as well as victims of American lack of welfare. You still hadn’t quoted any numbers.

by blfr 5y ago

trasz 5y ago

Because it’s not fashionable to count victims of the US. Otherwise you would be able to find a book on that, right?

blfr 5y ago
Quite the opposite. It's extremely fashionable nowadays. There are countless books on slavery, Indian genocide, and related subjects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project However, American imperialism simply doesn't hold a candle to Russian or Chinese communism. When it comes to genocide or other mass atrocities, communists are usually in a league of their own.
- trasz 5y ago
  This is only about slavery - and even that doesn’t count the modern American Gulag of private prisons, or victims of American wars. Also, you’re repeating over and over the “doesn’t hold a candle”, but you failed to quote any numbers.
  - blfr 5y ago
    I assumed you would know since you're interested in the subject. In general, the whole colonization of the west was a fairly understaffed affair. For example, the French and Indian War involved well under 100 thousand combatants, maybe even just 50 thousand. At the same time, during the Seven Years' War in Europe over a million people were mobilized. In multiple battles Europeans took about as many casualties as the North American theatre had participants.
    - trasz 5y ago
      War in Iraq alone is about one million deaths. And given that you’re counting deaths of famine as victims of communism, you’d have to add victims of American sanctions around the world, as well as victims of American lack of welfare. You still hadn’t quoted any numbers.