For context: The thread was about why people hate Hexbear and Lemmygrad instances

  • FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Communism does not advocate genocide any more than capitalism does.

    So “eat the rich” is just edgy humor or what?

    Weird, because somehow, every time that every time communism has been tried, it involved massive genocide, though perhaps one could argue that the majority of it was the result of incompetency, because the majority of the victims starved to death as a result of disastrous agricultural policies.

    The Holodomor in the Ukraine killed about 3.5-5 million people. The Great Leap Forward killed somewhere between 15-55 million. The Khmer Rouge killed about a million. And I’m not trying to make excuses for National Socialism here, but you have to admit that even when taking to low estimates, communism’s death toll is far higher than that of the Nazis. OP is correct, they’re all evil ideologies.

    Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_Fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m pretty sure “eat the rich” is not comparable to “kill 5 million Ukrainians.”

      And I’m also pretty sure ‘rich person’ is neither an ethnicity nor a nationality.

      • Aux@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Rich is a social construct. Just like Ukrainian. There’s no difference.