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[[Capitalism]] has created immense amounts of suffering and destruction since its beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Capitalist apologists | [[Capitalism]] has created immense amounts of suffering and destruction since its beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Capitalist apologists often claim that this is "not real capitalism" or "crony capitalism." | ||
== Death toll == | == Death toll == | ||
=== India === | |||
Capitalism killed over 160 million people in [[British Raj (1858–1947)|British India]] between 1880 and 1920.<ref>{{Web citation|author=[[Ben Norton]]|newspaper=[[Multipolarista]]|title=British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism|date=2022-12-12|url=https://multipolarista.com/2022/12/12/britain-100-million-india-deaths-colonialism/|retrieved=2022-12-16}}</ref> | |||
=== United States === | |||
The [[Government of the United States of America|U.S. government]] and military have killed at least 18 million [[Native Americans]], a million each of [[Socialist Republic of Vietnam|Vietnamese]] people, [[Republic of Iraq|Iraqis]],<ref group="lower-alpha">As of 2000, before the [[Iraq War|Second Iraq War]]</ref> [[Korea|Koreans]], and [[Republic of the Philippines|Filipinos]], 500,000 [[Republic of Indonesia|Indonesians]], 500,000 [[Democratic Kampuchea (1975–1979)|Cambodians]], and a combined 500,000 [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Germans]] and [[Empire of Japan (1868–1947)|Japanese]] people.<ref name=":02">{{Citation|author=Austin Murphy|year=2000|title=The Triumph of Evil|chapter=Introduction|page=22–24, 37–40|pdf=https://mltheory.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf|publisher=European Press Academic Publishing|isbn=8883980026}}</ref> | |||
=== Former USSR === | |||
The average male life expectancy for the former [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] dropped from 63.8 to 57.7 years between 1990 and 1994.<ref>{{News citation|author=[[Brian Becker]]|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Socialism and the legacy of the Soviet Union|date=2008-02-01|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/socialism-and-the-legacy-of-the-soviet-union/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033918/http://liberationschool.org/socialism-and-the-legacy-of-the-soviet-union/|archive-date=2020-11-12|retrieved=2022-06-21}}</ref> | The average male life expectancy for the former [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]] dropped from 63.8 to 57.7 years between 1990 and 1994.<ref>{{News citation|author=[[Brian Becker]]|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Socialism and the legacy of the Soviet Union|date=2008-02-01|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/socialism-and-the-legacy-of-the-soviet-union/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112033918/http://liberationschool.org/socialism-and-the-legacy-of-the-soviet-union/|archive-date=2020-11-12|retrieved=2022-06-21}}</ref> | ||
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Capitalism has created immense amounts of suffering and destruction since its beginning in the 16th and 17th centuries. Capitalist apologists often claim that this is "not real capitalism" or "crony capitalism."
Death toll
India
Capitalism killed over 160 million people in British India between 1880 and 1920.[1]
United States
The U.S. government and military have killed at least 18 million Native Americans, a million each of Vietnamese people, Iraqis,[a] Koreans, and Filipinos, 500,000 Indonesians, 500,000 Cambodians, and a combined 500,000 Germans and Japanese people.[2]
Former USSR
The average male life expectancy for the former Soviet Union dropped from 63.8 to 57.7 years between 1990 and 1994.[3]
Poverty
After the overthrow of the Soviet Union and restoration of capitalism, poverty rates increased massively in Eastern Europe and Central Asia:[4]
- Belarus: 1% to 22%
- Bulgaria: 2% to 15%
- Estonia: 1% to 37%
- Hungary: 1% to 4%
- Kazakhstan: 5% to 65%
- Kyrgyzstan: 12% to 88%
- Latvia: 1% to 22%
- Lithuania: 1% to 30%
- Moldova: 4% to 66%
- Poland: 6% to 20%
- Romania: 6% to 59%
- Russia: 2% to 50%
- Turkmenistan: 12% to 61%
- Ukraine: 2% to 63%
- Uzbekistan: 24% to 63%
Starvation
All of the worst 50 countries in terms of starvation rate are capitalist. Somalia, a capitalist country, has a starvation rate more than 10 times as high as Laos, the most malnourished socialist country, and over 300 times as high as socialist Vietnam.[5]
Mass incarceration
The United States imprisons 2.8% of its population, a higher rate than the Soviet Union at the height of the Purges.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Ben Norton (2022-12-12). "British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years: How colonialism inspired fascism" Multipolarista. Retrieved 2022-12-16.
- ↑ Austin Murphy (2000). The Triumph of Evil: 'Introduction' (pp. 22–24, 37–40). [PDF] European Press Academic Publishing. ISBN 8883980026
- ↑ Brian Becker (2008-02-01). "Socialism and the legacy of the Soviet Union" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2022-06-21.
- ↑ Branko Milanovic (1998). Income, Inequality, and Poverty during the Transition from Planned to Market Economy: 'Poverty; By How Much Has Poverty Increased?' (p. 68). [PDF] Washington, D.C.: World Bank. ISBN 082133994X
- ↑ "Malnutrition". World Health Rankings. Archived from the original on 2022-12-02. Retrieved 2022-02-07.
- ↑ Saed Teymuri (2018-10-31). "The Truth about the Soviet Gulag - Surprisingly Revealed by the CIA" The Stalinist Katyusha. Archived from the original on 2019-04-01. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
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