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Groundking on 30 March 2017
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VGPolyglot said:
John2290 said:

It shouldn't bring you comfort. Don't let yourself forget that more than a hundred million were killed directly by followers of Marx and that continues into the 21st century, albeit less directly. I'm not telling you what you should think here nor what you should read however the real world implications whould scare you and that comfort that you feel should be something that you should try to side step or at least unsettle yourself be reading oppossing philosophy and writings. At the very least looking at other ideologies will help you understand why it is giving you comfort and why that should be not such a good thing.

If we're going that route, 100 million is way less than the hundreds of millions by capitalist countries. Also, Stalinism and Maoism are not Marxism, they are separate ideologies (for example, Stalin's "socialism in one country" is not part of Marxist ideology).

That's because they don't have enough freedom in the market and capitalism. The whole world has had the blueprint to prosperity given courtesy by the west for at least 50 years now (longer really) and the only countries that have truly grasped this are Japan and South Korea. And just look at what's happened to China, they embrace capitalism just a little bit and all of a sudden millions are lifted out of abject poverty.