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> we have seen several experiments on forcing equality and millions died. I've not heard of this. Which experiments "forced equality" and then as a result cau
by komali2 1y ago
> we have seen several experiments on forcing equality and millions died.
I've not heard of this. Which experiments "forced equality" and then as a result caused millions of deaths?
I'm aware of the experiment of capitalism failing in India to the tune of about 100 million dead, is that what you mean? With capitalism's attempts to equalize through meritocracy?
- Izikiel43 1y agoURSS, Mao's china, other communist regimes throughout the 20th century. Capitalism doesn't equalize, it tries to maximize.
- dragonwriter 1y agoThey used equality as a rhetorical pretext for empowering a different narrow elite that the one than the revolutionary cadre replaced.
- Izikiel43 1y agoWeird though that every time the same thing ended up happening.
- komali2 1y agoUSSR and Maoist PRC indeed took actions that killed millions, but so did capitalist India or mercantilist Britain or hegemonic America. I don't see a correlation between "forcing equality," which I'm not really even sure those regimes did (since Party members were clearly unequal in their power and quality of life), and the deaths. Just politics.