People killed by Capitalism Mussolini's Ethiopia 700,000 Franco Regime 300,000 NATO Intervention in Libya 15,000 Chiang Kai Shek regime 7,000,000 Benito Mussolini regime 300,000 Post-Soviet Capitalism 15,000,000 Somali Child Famine Deaths 29,000 NATO Intervention in Libya 15,000 Second Boer War 75,000 Japanese Massacre of Singapore 100,000 Burma-Siam Railroad Construction 116,000 Japanese Germ Warfare in China 200,000 Rebelling Shia Killed by Saddam 300,000 US Bombing of Yugoslavia 300,000 US Bombing Iraq Water Supply '91 500,000 US Civil War 700,000 Iraq-Iran War 1,000,000 US sanctions on Iraq 1,000,000 US Backed Suharto 1,200,000 Irish Potato Famine 1,500,000 Japanese Democides 5,964,000 Famine of 1932-33 7,000,000 Bengal Famine of 1943 10,000,000 Famine in British India 30,000,000 US Intervention in the Congo 5,000,000 Congo 1886-1908 8,000,000 Hurricane Katrina 1,836 Indonesian Anti-Com. Purge 1,000,000 Stateless Capitalist Somalia 1,000,000 Industrial Revolution USA 100,000 1898 US War vs Philippine 3,000,000 Palestinians Killed by Israel 826,626 Guatemala 300,000 Nanking Massacre 300,000 Iraq (Selling Gas to Saddam) 400,000 Iraq (Desert Storm) 500,000 Invasion of the Philippines 650,000 Feudal Russia 1,066,000 Afghanistan 1,200,000 Iraq 1,300,000 Khmer Rouge 2,035,000 South African Apartheid 3,500,000 Nazi Holocaust 12,000,000 US Aggression on Latin America 6,000,000 Japanese Imperialism 6,000,000 Vietnam War - including Cambodia & Laos 10,000,000 Korean War 10,000,000 British Occupation of India 20,000,000 Great Depression (America alone) 12,000,000 World War One 16,500,000 World War Two 60,000,000 Native American Genocide 95,000,000 Capitalist Policy in India 1947 - 1990 120,000,000 African Slave Trade 150,000,000 US Backed murder of Tamils 30,000 Spanish-American War 100,000 Spanish Civil War 400,000 Union Carbide Bophal Disaster 15,000 Massacre of Paris Commune 20,000 First Indochina 1946-1954 1,500,000 Belgian Congo Colonization 1,000,000 French Madagascar 80,000 Nigerian Civil War 1,000,000 Rwandan Genocide 1,000,000 US Made Famine Bangladesh 100,000 Children Died fr Hunger '09 5,256,000 Children Died fr Hunger '10 6,000,000 Children Killed by Hunger Since 9/11 235,000,000 Children Killed by Hunger during the 1990s 100,000,000 Ciggarette Related Deaths Worldwide (1960 - 2011) 306,000,000 Total Killed by Capitalism: 1,603,016,267 this number is growing every day. also lol at calling him a racist. he went to africa to try and help free the people in the congo.
30000-100000 annually in usa alone from crisco aka partially hydrogenated vege oil. (its that new "food" from 1896; use it to preserve whale oil, or make money by calling it "i can't believe its not butter") that's more ignorance than capitalism, granted--like cigerettes--you have the freedom for someone else to make your shit for u, u don't even have to know whats in it now u know better james, and pandas came before china went full on capitalist
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0]laugh harder - YouTube[/ame] workers being worked to death, starvation, oil wars. i could go on. edit: products such as cigarettes that are pretty much designed to kill you.
They are mainly fought to increase power. Wars are a natural outgrowth of the state's desire of ever increasing power. To blame it on "capitalism" is hyperbole and a gross over generalization. Also completely false.
[quote name='"buller"']granted, they are fought to preserve and further capitalistic institutions[/quote] That would be fascistic.
yet when you say it about communism its all fine and dandy? gotta love double standards. id also like to mention there has never been a communist society other than pre-stalin soviet union and that only failed due to the capitalist blockades set up that wouldn't allow food or medicine into the soviet union. those blockades make up a decent portion of the deaths you are attributing to communism btw. edit: and all of the anti-communist propaganda stems from that as well. people starving and dying were due to the blockades.
I never said communism started any wars. I don't believe any intellectual philosophies are the cause of any wars (but statism is the enabler). Not modern wars at least. They are just a natural consequence of a human desire for power over others, and as a way to keep the State financed. If it can be boiled down to a single cause I would say it's government, specifically a big overarching government. The thing is though, in a free market capitalistic society the government would have to be very small in size. That is a necessity because big government and free markets are mutually exclusive. They can't simultaneously exist. So in actuality free market capitalism is the antitode to war. As a free market proponent I'm against all forms of blockades, sanctions, embargoes, etc. As Ron Paul puts it, they are an act of war. They aren't inherit in capitalism.
wealth cannot be power? i just can't wrap my head around that one. im mean if there were laws that the wealthy had to obey as well, i could see it. but wouldn't that be big evil government?
This is so ridiculous its not even funny. Mussolini was a fascist which is a lot closer to Socialism than Capitalism. Children died from hunger due to capitalism LMFAO! So I'm sure no children died from hunger when the Soviet Union was around right. I'm also sure cigarettes were never distributed in Soviet Russia. Blaming the holocaust on capitalism when the perpetrators were the National Socialist German Workers Party LMFAO! Your post is absolutely insane.
lol. thats all i have to say to your response. maybe you should do some reading. the nazi party called themselves socialist to try and get the socialist support... it didnt work. also lol at saying fascism is a socialist thing.
Don't confuse social marxism and economic socialism. Fascism has a mixed economy with heavy central planning.
the future(plenty of food and basic necessities for all)--bartering will rise I want a boat, but I can't build one, No one is going take their time to build me a boat unless they get something of equal value for their labour. The builder (like everyone in the future)wants for nothing, the notion of amassing wealth doesn't occur to him. He will build a boat only when he wants something he cannot produce. Money would have no intrinsic value in an art driven world such as this. Dare I say capitalism would not exist here?
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a sucker is a capitalist best friend all of those things wrong? idk, or care. capitalism will die when everyone no longer wants for basic necessities, art will flourish, and we will all share it
Lol resources are becoming more scarce as the population increases not more plentiful. The most efficient economic system will be needed for a long time. And economic liberty will flourish once the government gets out of the picture. Statism is a cancer it will eventually kill the host but good thing is the economic death won't be permanent, we will find our way again.