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DonFerrari said:
SuaveSocialist said:

"Ignoring other big wars due to capitalism and only focusing on US action and only including one year for things that are systemic (ie. poverty), which is being really damn conservative because Japan engaged in brutal imperialism, we get a total of 205,000,000 killed directly or indirectly because of capitalism."

http://www.petersaysstuff.com/2014/05/attempting-the-impossible-calculating-capitalisms-death-toll/

Some estimates put it at 1.6 Billion https://maoistrebelnews.com/2012/03/16/1-6-billion-killed-by-capitalism/

Just a little dose of perspective.

So we have several centuries atributed to capitalism in the death count on the whole world versus some decades of direct famine death and execution on socialism and you want to use the same balance?


 

I used the whole world for the case of Capitalism's death toll?  Read my first paragraph again.  The US alone more than doubled the world's death toll for "Socialism".  It also managed to surpass "Socialism's" death toll in less than half the time.  The first link also illustrates that it only takes less than six years for Capitalism in the modern world to systemically cause more deaths than "Socialism" has in its totality--and that's only looking at systemic causes of death!

The second link is the big picture, comparing all the world's capitalism-induced deaths vs "Socialism's".  (Socialism is in brackets because it is Communism that takes the Credit for 100M deaths, not Socialism).

Your cognitive dissonance is showing.