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Mr Puggsly said:
Goodnightmoon said:

But our capitalist system shouldn't be as extremelly savage as it is, it has already killed way more people than comunism did, big wars nowadays are just because the money, our system works better than theirs, but is really fucked up and we should be trying to change ourself first, and not only forcing the rest of the world to change, or to basically accept that we have the right to kill them when we want money, because that's hatefull.

Our capitalist system killed more people communism? I don't understand this statement. I mean its estimated communism has killed like 100 million people.

It is estimated that Capitalism is responsible for over 200 million deaths----and that's just looking at American activity alone.
http://www.petersaysstuff.com/2014/05/attempting-the-impossible-calculating-capitalisms-death-toll/

Then there's India, where Capitalism is responsible for even more deaths in about half time.  "Overcoming amnesia, suppose we now apply the methodology of the Black Book and its reviewers to the full story, not just the doctrinally acceptable half. We therefore conclude that in India the democratic capitalist "experiment" since 1947 has caused more deaths than in the entire history of the "colossal, wholly failed...experiment" of Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, tens of millions more since, in India alone."
http://spectrezine.org/global/chomsky.htm

Villify Communism all you want for that 100 million figure--my sig should make it clear how I feel about any death and 100 million is a Hell of a lot--but try not to let cognitive dissonance excuse the deaths resulting from Capitalism.