If a country produces enough food to feed everyone within its borders but people still starve to death because they can’t afford the food, those people are dying of of capitalism.
If a country has enough farm workers and farms to produce all the food it needs to feed its people but doesn’t because those farms are being used to produce cash crops for export, the people who starve there are dying of capitalism.
If a country has the ability to replace its failing infrastructure but refuses to do so because paying for it means raising taxes on the richest 0.01% and/or messing with the profits of the energy companies, everyone who dies because of that bad infrastructure–from drinking lead-poisoned water, or being on a bridge that’s decades overdue for replacement when it collapses, or standing too close to a power converter that’s literally never had maintenance done on it when it explodes–those people died of capitalism.
If someone dies of exposure while living in a country with more empty houses than homeless people, they died of capitalism.
If someone dies of a disease we’ve known how to treat for decades or even centuries because they couldn’t afford to go to the hospital, they died of capitalism.
If a corporation builds a factory that dumps toxic waste into a nearby river and the people who drink that river water die of it, they died of capitalism.
If weapon manufacturers are able to strong-arm and/or cajole and/or bribe a certain country’s politicians into fighting endless wars on false pretexts in order to justify a bottomless military budget that can be spent on their overpriced garbage that can’t even defeat the Taliban–to the point where the issue isn’t even debated in said country’s so-called “free and fair” elections any more–everyone who died in those wars died of capitalism.
If a country is incapable of developing itself because the terms of its IMF loan dictates that it privatizes its economy, allowing foreign multinationals to come in and suck out all the resources and wealth it could have used to improve the life of its citizens, anyone in that country who could have been saved if they just lived in a more developed part of the world died of capitalism.
If a country can afford a UBI and doesn’t have one–since again, this means taxing capitalists–every single robbery, burglary, mugging, etc. that happens within its borders can be laid at the feet of capitalism. Meaning that yes, people who die because of these things gone wrong are also victims of capitalism.
If a state is wholly owned by the capitalist class, then any violence done by the state in furtherance of the goals of said capitalist class–such as police cracking down on protestors, on top of every aforementioned example–is violence done by capitalism.
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