Comment by shortrounddev2
6 months ago
Economic gains represent people being lifted out of dangerous situations and increasing access to thing like health care and stable/clean housing. Economic gains in the moral opposite of preventable deaths. You cannot indict capitalism for the people that die under it while simultaneously ignoring the lives it has saved through poverty reduction
We could talk about direct, actual murder. I think that capitalist interference, coups, counter-revolutionaries, and death squads have managed to murder more people than socialists have.
“Source?” Eh, I’m just telling you my perspective in the same vigorous way that you opened this thread.
> I think socialist revolutions have killed more "out group" members than any political/religious movement in human history