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[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminder that the 100 million number comes from the editor's introduction to the Black Book of Communism, who "was 'hunting' for the highest possible number of victims", and whose introduction was disavowed by three of the other authors.

Three of the book's main contributors (Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin, and Nicolas Werth) publicly disassociated themselves from Courtois' statements in the introduction and criticized his editorial conduct. Margolin and Werth felt that Courtois was "obsessed" with arriving at a total of 100 million killed, which resulted in "sloppy and biased scholarship", faulted him for exaggerating death tolls in specific countries, and rejected the comparison between Communism and Nazism. [citations in the Wikipedia article]


Also, a side note: The term they're looking for is "corporatocracy" or "corporate capitalism", or sometimes you'll hear "crony capitalism" (as if these are distortions of capitalism and not inherent trends!). Corporatism is a whole other thing, a class-collaborationist ideology/system based on collective bargaining of groups. It has its own issues, but it's a separate concept.

But the word "corporatism" is so misused that it's hardly worth calling wrong anymore...

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago (19 children)

Literally this guy i knows EXACT argument every time we discuss this. Then I describe how capitalism inevitably becomes corporatism because of HOW IT WORKS.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Gotta love how basic logic is far beyond the comprehension of ancaps.

Tell me, who is going to enforce property rights in an anarchist setting? Whoever has the biggest guns?
So, you're telling me that a person or group will use force and threaten violence against those that don't play along? How is that anarchic?

Yes. The ancap i know loves guns.

Still doesnt rise up against tyranny though but theyd love to take down a home invader. Thats all these idiots dream about.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They fail at anarchy because capitalism is hierarchical, not because every social order is enforced by people with guns.

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[–] Abrinoxus@lemmy.today 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is dumb as snake would never even recognize people dying by anything but their own hand. Snake still an idiot

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (8 children)

say what you want but i think it's pretty cool that they made a "victims of communism" museum. it's a building where you walk through a main door to get in and learn about people who were victimized by at least ostensibly communist regimes. it's great because the main door works both ways: if you're already inside, you can walk through the same door and step into the "victims of capitalism" museum.

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