Pangurstan wrote:Trollzyn the Infinite wrote:
It comes from the death tolls of the Holodomor, the Cultural Revolution, and every other heinous genocide, war, and massacre committed under a Red Flag.
Stop trying to rewrite history because it doesn't support your narrative. Communism is a con that has left over half the world in devastating poverty.Chomsky wrote:While India's democratic institutions prevented famines, its excess of mortality over China—potentially attributable to the latter's more equal distribution of medical and other resources—was nonetheless close to 4 million per year for non-famine years. Supposing we now apply the methodology of the Black Book" to India, "the democratic capitalist 'experiment' has caused more deaths than in the entire history of [...] Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, and tens of millions more since, in India alone.
The general rule of thumb is that everything bad that ever happened under a nominally socialist government can be attributed directly to leftist politics, while anything bad that ever happens under liberal-democratic capitalism is a blip, the product of individual bad people and can in no way be attributed to liberalism or capitalism.