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Communism has caused more pain and suffering than capitalism ever has
Alrighty, I’m assuming you’re thinking of the Soviet Union and other Leninist states, which were/are not communist in any sense of the word, but even assuming it was, let’s have a look at how Leninist states stack up? (note: As a libertarian communist my analysis is that Leninist states are essentially state capitalism and so their atrocities are also capitalist atrocities but JUST FOR FUN BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT’S WHAT COMMUNISM IS LET’S HAVE A LOOK AT HOW THEY STACK UP)
At the high point in the US the incarceration rate was higher than it was during the high point of the gulag system in Soviet Russia.
The NSA monitors our data in a way the Soviet surveillance state would be proud of
We use solitary confinement which is unquestionably torture
We frame political dissidents for crimes and torture them (seriously)
We back states like Saudi Arabia and Sudan known for their consistent and unconscionable human rights violations.
We’ve supported literal genocide
We censored media because we thought it was “politically dangerous”
and that’s mostly just the US. Oh and don’t try and claim that the US wasn’t violent post-revolution, loyalists were persecuted plenty
Hell let’s have some more:
The 1850–73 famine in China that killed over 60 million people as a result of imperialism and the opium wars.
Here are some gems from a list I found on a forum of atrocities capitalism must answer for if you’re going to hold it to the same standard you hold your idea of communism to:
What is the Belgian Kongo and the mess of states left after?
What is French Algeria?
What is British India and Pakistan?
What is the Native American Genocide in North America?
What is the Iraq War?
What is the Yemeni Civil War, and the US supporting Saudi bombing campaigns on civilian targets, during a famine?
What is De Beers?
What is the 1973 CIA funded coup of Allende in Chile?
What is the Contras in Nicaragua?
What is violence and regime change in the Honduras?
What is the genocide of Chinese people in Indonesia?
What is the Vietnam War?
What is the CIA funding of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge?
What is the Syrian Crisis and the Pentagon funding one side, while the CIA funds another?
What is post French Rwanda and the genocide that followed?
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
What is the funding of Afghani Taliban during the USSR’s invasion on Afghanistan?
What is the 1954 Guatemalan Coup d’Etat?
What is Koch Industries bankrolling the Nazi oil industry?
What is Allied Powers supporting the Tsarists during the Russian Civil War?
What is the continued occupation and bombing campaigns against the Palestinian people?
What are the lies and corporate greed that led to the 2008 crash?
What is the Libyan conflict?
What is the entire oil industry?
What is the lobbying of government by companies like Haliburton, owned by Dick Cheney, to go on with perpetual warfare?
What is child labour in Asian countries and the Industrial Revolution?
What is Exxon Mobile covering up their data on climate change?
What is the private prison industry?
And I COULD LIST MORE.
So basically what did Leninist states do that wasn’t capitalist business as usual?
(…like it was capitalism where striking was illegal but you got free healthcare so it was sort of… eh y’ know swings and roundabouts)
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