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I suggest you actually diligently check the sources for the suspect claims that 100 million people died under Communism.

Under the accounting methods used, capitalist systems of government would dwarf that number. Of course, uneven standards are par for the course.

> It was always the plan of the Marxists to grab all the power and run a dictatorship.

"The Marxists". Do you know how many groups participated in the Russian civil war, how many of them considered themselves Marxists, and how many of them were purged by the sole political entity that seized power? Since you uncritically cited that 100 million figure, I'm going to guess no.



As an example just in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deat..., due to economic mismanagement. I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government, which I suspect would be hard as capitalist governments by definition don't exercise complete centralised control over the country's economic production.


> I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government

Have you ever tried yourself? It's not a very hard thing to start to compile. The problem here is ideological though. Everything that would be added to the capitalism list would be rationalized away even if it uses the same measurement stick.




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