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WheelsRCool
OrbitalPower said:I suggest you read Amartya Sen and Jean Dreze's book on poverty which claims that because India was implementing a market system for the distribution of health care and food resources, India "manage to fill its cupboard with more skeletons every eight years than China put there in its years of shame". The book also claims women were better able to take care of themselves in China than in India.
That's about 50 million people every 8 years, far greater than even the Great Leap Forward let die or "murdered."
India hasn't used a market system for healthcare or food up until very recently. If the market system failed with food, we would see starvation and food shortages in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, etc...which we don't have.
Also, you should really count up the deaths in Latin America and so on that resulted from the US not allowing them to run their countries like they wanted; as well as the problems of colonialism in Africa, adding up the total of capitalist deaths to be over 200 million.
Colonialism in Africa was very wrong, but was not capitalist. Death and poverty continue to occur in Africa precisely because it is not capitalist.
The black book of capitalism estimates 100 million people murdered by capitalist systems, so anybody can throw out numbers. (And the black book of communism, which does not, by the way, suggest russia killed 100 million, was denounced by its fellow co-authors as Courtious had fudged the numbers regarding china.)
The book is wrong. Capitalism has proven itself the world over for bringing millions of people out of poverty. No one can deny that. The book blames World War I and II, colonialism, anti-communist military wars (I am guessing the Korean War and the Vietnam War), and so forth, which are supposedly the fault of capitalism, something completely untrue in all these instances.
And BTW, the Ron Paul Libertarian capitalist types are completely opposed to war unless absolutely necessary.