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When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
—Friedrich Engels, Condition of the Working Class in England, 1845
Someone has to write a book called Capitalism: The White Legend. I feel like that’d be fire
The difference is that communism is trying to help people, otherwise the deaths wouldn’t be significant. Obviously…
Ahhhh yeah cool graph I wanna see the citations for it lol
When they go high, we go low.
Communism score bar too low imo
surely its in the trillions by now
72T is an aspirational goal
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Whats with China and communist bunnies??!
They’re from Year Hare Affair which is a Chinese animation depicting China’s relationships with other countries (eagle and bear) through the cold war period. It’s a fun show.
China likes to depict China as a bunny.
Year Hare Affair is cute, though its anthropomorphizing/personification can get a bit problematic (regarding depicting Koreans as an ethnic slur) as well as misrepresenting/simplifying soviet assistance to China (there’s a subplot about China having to invent nuclear weapons in spite of the USSR).
The show is still somehow going strong
(there’s a subplot about China having to invent nuclear weapons in spite of the USSR).
As I understand it, the Chinese were promised support in developing their nuclear program including a prototype but the USSR ended up only providing one single lecture which had incomplete information. Sino-Soviet split stuff that China is still salty about.
That sounds about right. It’s mostly that year hare affair can get nationalistic at points, which, for a webseries started by one guy, is pretty tame.
Unless there is an agreed upon metric for determining who is killed because of an ideology and who was killed within it and also accounting for stuff like revolutions and wars. Say, Vietnam everyone who died in that war could be counted as either or, the soldiers who fought for communism died from both, same for the soldiers fighting for capitalism. They died defending something and to go fight and get killed by the other thing. You could call it either way.
Capitalism still easily outweighs communism on the deaths it’s responsible for and the fairness of those deaths being low. IE: people in opposition to revolution being killed or nazis in ww2, those are justified and should count as a credit if anything for the lives they saved with their actions.
They go low,we go high
