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logi@lemmy.world 4 days agoBecause a communist dictator coming into power is often followed by severe mismanagement and famine and the deaths of millions. It’s not the same sort of evil as killing people deliberately, but they’re equally dead.
No, actually, just no, colonialist regimes and fascist regimes killed far more people consistently than even incompetent communist states. The deaths of millions every year under neocolonialist comprador governments in Africa and Asia and South America happens silently every year.
Communist dictatorship is better than a totally inhuman dictatorship of capital. I legit believe this.
I’m not even disputing that. I’m just saying Mao done fucked up. And if that triggers you, then you’ve got a problem.
I have a problem with thinking the KMT would have been any better. I would have supported the CPC for the same reason why I support Iran and Hamas against Israel.
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
So, all the famine, death and destruction caused by capitalist exploitation of third world countries like india and most of the afrives continent can also directly be tied to that right? Then its at least a intellectually consisten framework youre operating under.
And doing that, the most conservative death toll, from WHO, is around 9 million excess deaths, A YEAR.
multiply that by, again lets be conservative and lets say just the last 30 years. So from the middle of the nineties to now, thats 270 million excess deaths just from imposed famine like conditions. So no even counting other deaths following the exploitation of workers and ressources in third world countries
if we just do the math, it seems capitalism is many orders of magnitude more deadly than even psychos like Stalin.
logi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Sure, if that’s the comparison you’re making. But “capitalism” Vs Mao is not a comparison that makes sense.
You could maybe count Churchill’s famine in India or his jolly little wars in Africa if you want to be argumentative. Or just accept that Mao caused millions of deaths through pig-headed incompetence and move on.
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Im just being logically consistent here m8. Mao killed tens of millions. Capitalism kills hundreds of millions, and continues to do so.
If were gonna play the killscore game, might as well get the full scoreboard
logi@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Tsk. Mao is not the same sort of concept as capitalism. Has he killed more or fewer people than mosquitoes or bananas? What about too short green traffic lights? Moonless nights? All questions that make the same amount of sense. Mate.