Communist deaths: each of those Nazi soldiers would have had 7 children so add 18 million unborn Aryan children to that list
Capitalist deaths: it wasn’t Churchill’s responsibility to make sure he didn’t take all the food from Bengal. Where’s the individual responsibility?
Also capitalists: all those kids in the factory that died? Should’ve stayed in school and learned coding to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Over a million alone died in the USA just from covid, the virus that showed the world that capitalism can’t and won’t handle a crisis.
That’s not even including the number of preventable medical deaths, starvation, homelessness etc.
Here is a pdf of the paper mentioned in OP.
Jason Hickel, one of the authors of that paper, also wrote a good one about unequal exchange, showing that poverty in the Global South is pretty much created and maintained by Global North countries who drain land, labour, and goods from the South to feed their greed and overconsumption. This unequal exchange (or ‘drain’) amounts to about 30x what Global South countries receive in aid, and it is enough to eliminate extreme poverty dozens of times over.
Love that a sizeable part of Jason Hickel’s career is just publishing empirical works that debunk neoliberal and Western propaganda. o7
Thanks for these links comrade!
Didn’t chomsky say something like 1.7 billion over the British occupation of India if you used the black books standards?
My hate remains pure.
Does anyone have a link for where they writers of the Black Book admit they made it up?
It was the editor that was making shit up. You can read about this even on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism [In particular, Margolin, who authored the book’s chapter on Vietnam, stated that “he has never mentioned a million deaths in Vietnam”]
Huh I recall reading the wiki page about this sometime in the past decade and it presented the academic consensus that the BBofC was polemical bullshit and now the wiki page is like “controversial yet thought provoking”
yeahhh the criticism section was folded into reception to maintain “neutrality”
No you see sweaty, what the British did was akshually communism because it was done by the government, and communism means anything the government does. So those 100 million deaths should be added to COMMUNISM’S death toll.
(Exaggerated version of what a MAGA chud actually said to me regarding the British Empire’s slaughter across the globe. He also tried mental gymnasticing his way around blaming the US’s genocide of indigenous Americans on communism, even though he’s completely ok with the results because Murica fuck yeah. These peoples’ logic is fucked.)
