>Irish potato famine 1 million people killed. ~12-15% of Ireland’s population. For profit.
Ah, yes, the classic tankie NO U.
>Bengal famine 2-3 million died. ~5% of the population. Under complete control of the British. Under British colonial policy (capitalism abroad).
>blames government policy
>>which is somehow the fault of capitalism (private trade)
Wikipedia says the government “created the "forced transferences of purchasing power” to the military from ordinary people, reducing their food consumption.
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce (composed mainly of British-owned firms), with the approval of the Government of Bengal, devised a Foodstuffs Scheme to provide preferential distribution of goods and services to workers in high-priority roles such as armed forces, war industries, civil servants and other “priority classes”, to prevent them from leaving their positions.“
It was literally the government taking more power and goods for itself.
>2 million died just crossing the ocean from Africa to here. 20-30 (some say as high as 60) million died from the whole slave trade in Africa. For profit.
"Capitalism is when profit.”
Also, you know what was the primary source of African slaves? War. By Africans. You know, that thing generally done by governments.
Often wars specifically to capture slaves. (EG Dahomey.)
Also, many slave operations were government-backed monopolies.
>Holodomor was less than 3% of USSR population. The famines stopped, almost immediately.
The estimates of the German population killed in the Holocaust are less than 1%. You are using percentages to desperately make 1 in 33 people dying seem smaller.
>But if people are gonna tell you the communist manifesto is evil, you definitely have to read it and determine if you think it is evil.
And then there’s the vague gesturing at some book you want your opposition to read, in lieu of an actual counterargument.
>It’s like you’re fighting against someone trying to give you the shirt off their back.
And the ol’ “no, socialism/communism is just free stuff, look at how selfless we are”.
OP was still stupid and wrong, no matter how much you try to change hte subject.
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