[Blunderov] Hmm. I’m not keen on
relativism. By this standard one can say of the Nazis that they were better
than the Communists because the Nazi body count was lower.
And what is one to say of
Taxonomy is a tricky thing. And anyone who
performed such an accounting would be likely to discover nothing more useful than
their own historical preconceptions it seems to me.
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"Communism" is a very big word. To large for the generalization you offer
IMO; perhaps Marxist-Leninism is the flavour to which you most object? How many people has Capitalism killed I wonder?
I believe Jonathan's statement was correct in this regard. The death toll
under Stalin was larger than that within Nazi Germany before one has added in
Mao's cultural revolution or Pol Pot. A generalisation it may have been, but
Marxist-Leninism did seem to produce remarkably consistent results. The
spectrum from
The comparison with capitalism is valid in so far said economic structure has
often had devastating effects (though the economic fall-out of communism was
probably the least of its crimes). Nonetheless, it's probably not very helpful
for a number of reasons, most obviously that fascism and communism were both mass
movements, which capitalism has certainly not been since the nineteenth
century. Equally, the spectrum of what can be counted as capitalism from