Comment by InstanceOf

8 years ago

Communism isn't genocidal. You should read up on what it actually is instead of relying on pro-capitalism propoganda. "Somebody died because Stalin/Mao" holds no candle compared to capitalism's "somebody died because housing, hospitalizing, and feeding the poor wasn't profitable".

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dang  8 years ago

Please keep generic ideological arguments off HN. They're always the same, and lead to flamewars.

Touche  8 years ago

Ah the old "there were no poor people before capitalism" mistruth again. You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why.

But you're right, communism the idea is not genocidal, just all of its prominent leaders were. The fact that the ideology lends itself towards "there is only 1 truth" has nothing to do with that, I'm sure.

  • sqeaky  8 years ago

    Rather than trying to argue capitalism vs communism I would like to point out that neither specifically calls for mass murder. Both to happen to be associated with plenty of it though.

    For people thinking capitalism is completely clean please look up the Indonesian genocides. For people thinking communism is great, consider how mao and stalin could have been stopped by communism.

  • s_kilk  8 years ago

    > You might want to research what Mao did before defending it in any why.

    What do you think Capitalisms death-toll might be?

  • InstanceOf  8 years ago

    > there were no poor people before capitalism

    Definitely said nothing like that. In the US there are 6 unoccupied house for every homeless person. Somehow this is better because you found a way to decentralize the dictator and blame the victims?