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The moral "high ground" of Capitalism
(lemmy.ml)
Indonesia is crazy high
The Indonesian genocide was massive, it's disgusting how little known it is now
Okay sure, but what about all those poor germans killed in the 1940s? And have you accounted for all the children they would have potentially had, but never had the chance? In actual fact every persons reproductive capacity far exceeds what a regular person could acheive under normal conditions, the sperm and egg count should also be included
And what about the people killed for being communists, have you accounted for them?
Yeh i didn't think so, adjust your graph, 666 quint-gorjillion, checkmate, I am very smart, 3D chess
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Someone should write the world's dumbest book about this
And give it the dumbest title like Black book of communism or some shit like that
This is unironically any interaction with some Fins or Balts here.
Sigh. (Not at you, dessalines). The USA is a fucking disgrace.
Another Dessalines list to save.
Thank you for your always valuable contributions.
Easy to have moral high ground when you can just blame all the deaths for their "laziness"
Yeah, capitalism sucks
Capitalism moral is an oximoron
The slave trade alone, jayzus...
Capitalism is dominant and longer used than Communism. The total amount of deaths is naturally higher. It doesn't tell anything about the actual amount of deaths communism could have, if it is active in the same capacity and amount of time, this plot would be more interesting.
And just to make things clear, I am not taking a position for any of the two. I just think this argument is not representative.
We can draw numbers from countries that lived both. How about... Russia? Yeah, the numbers don't look good.
Furthermore, we can draw conclussions from the simple fact that Capitalism is ruled by Capital. It doesn't care about anything else but to amass capital, in order to do this, it will kill, rape, torture, coup, create different kinds of military operations, etc. Or simply do stupid shit, like... using cars instead of trains (jaywalking was invented by capital!).
Socialism in the other hand is ruled by material conditions and a drive to develop the productive forces in order to satisfy the needs of the proletariat.
We do not need actual numbers because the philosophies of both already tell us what they outcomes will, more or less, look like. One doesn't care about lives, or productivity, simply treating currency as a literal replacement of God, it is a Frankenstein's monster that replaced religion by Capital. Amen.
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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