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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago (4 children)

aren't those "killed by communists" lists tend to include the Nazis killed in ww2? kind of dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

That is one of the more honest examples of what they do.

You want dishonest?

They count the difference between expected birthrate and actual birthrate.

War causes people to have less babies? Each baby not born = 1 death caused by communism.

Worse then dead, they never were.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago

it's interesting how anyone who dies in a communist country (even not being born there counts) is considered "death by communism", but then ignore the same from non communist counties.

kind of dishonest on their part...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Better sex education, access to contraception/abortion, and generally women having more control over when they have children/how many children they want to have under socialism was claimed to have taken "victims" too. Because if you're not accidentally getting pregnant at 19 with no recourse other than giving birth to children you didn't want, that's oppression by a totalitarian dictator.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (2 children)

The author of the black book of communism tended to write include even people who stubbed their toe as “victims of communism” yea.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

kicks nightstand "curse you Marx"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

That author was so dubious that even two other co-authors of the book later denounced it.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Honest question: where does the 1,6 billion figure come from?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Every death by Dutch capitalism (death from the slave trade, Colonialism/Colonial wars (Oceania, Africa, ...), ...)

plus

Every death by British empire's capitalism (Irish genocide, Bengal famine, Slave trade, Colonialism/Colonial wars (India, Africa, North America, South east Asia, Oceania, Middle east, ...) , Opium wars, Massacres against independence movements (India, ...), ...)

plus

Every death by French capitalism (Colonialism/colonial wars (North America, Caribbeans, Africa, South east Asia, ...), Slave trade, Massacres against independence movements (Algeria, Haiti, ...), ...)

plus

Every death by Belgian capitalism (Colonialism/Colonial wars (Congo, ...), Slave trade, Massacres against independence movements, ...)

plus

Every death by United States' capitalism (Colonialism/Colonial wars (Cuba, Hawaii, Philipines, North America, ...), Massacres against independence movements (South east Asia, Oceania, Cuba, ...), Slave trade, ...)

plus

Every death by German capitalism (Nama and Herero genocide, Holocaust, Slave trade, ...)

plus

Every death caused by preventable starvation, lack of access to water, healthcare.

List very much non-exhaustive.

If you add it all up you easily get over 1 Billion.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago

As expected this made libs here seething. Spectre haunts again lmao.

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