So, I’ve been reading “Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World” by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the “Victims of Communism” webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn’t alone. Here, the author recounts how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century.
#Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
#history
@SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe @bookstodon@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe The Victims of Communisms Memorial Foundation? It’s established and funded by the US government, though nominally independent, the the express and entirely open purpose of telling the world how evil, violent and oppressive communists are. It’s a pure propaganda organisation, barely even pretends otherwise. And yes, it claims 100 million victims killed by communism - but that is mostly from counting deaths from every famine in a nominally communist country.