I know there was one in the USSR in 1932 and one in the PRC in 1958. I know that they’re a major talking point of the “communism killed 100 million people” myth. I’d like to be able to understand them better and extract valid criticisms out of them so I don’t end up looking ignorant or sycophantic while trying to explain why I support communist countries.

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[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How come it's never "manslaughter" when capitalism has one of its inevitable crises and the people have to starve until the economy stabilizes, if anything the capitalist version is closest to manslaughter since it's 100% intentional that the working class have to pay in order to cover the capitalist's ass

[–] Maoo@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Assigning blame when the government does something and not when capitalists do something is a form of internalized liberalism

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

s, if anything the capitalist version is closest to manslaughter [...] 100% intentional

there's a whole law pervert thing i don't care enough to get into but typically manslaughter is unintentional so i think capitalist social murder isn't really an example of it.