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Offline Queefer Sutherland

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Re: People’s Party of Canada launched
« Reply #30 on: September 17, 2018, 06:11:45 pm »
I think history shows that most of the deaths attributed to communism are not because of the economic beliefs themselves, but because they were implemented by totalitarian regimes that went to horrific extremes to enforce their policies and crush dissent.

That's very arguably not true: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes#Debate_on_famines

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Over half of the 100 million deaths attributed to communism were due to famine, according to Soviet historian J. Arch Getty.[195] Stéphane Courtois argues that many communist regimes caused famines in their efforts to forcibly collectivize agriculture and systematically used it as a weapon by controlling the food supply and distributing food on a political basis. He states that "in the period after 1918, only Communist countries experienced such famines, which led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands, and in some cases millions, of people. And again in the 1980s, two African countries that claimed to be Marxist-Leninist, Ethiopia and Mozambique, were the only such countries to suffer these deadly famines."

Take a wretched bureaucratic debacle, like the Phoenix pay system disaster, equate those absent-minded failures to government-controlled food production and distribution, and you end up with the starvation of millions of people.
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