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CMV: Saying communist genocides didn’t happen is as bad or worse then saying the holocaust didn’t happen.

I’ve found several subreddits that say communism in the ussr and China didn’t kill anyone. This in my opinion is worse then saying the holocaust didn’t happen. If you say something like the holocaust is fake then you know that there a anti Jewish nazi. But people actively believe this shit. It is horrible that it’s social acceptability to say that the USSRs work camps didn’t exist and they were perfect except for USA ruined them. I don’t get why this types don’t want to move to a communist or socialist country and instead want to do it here. It just makes no sense to me that everything wrong is propaganda. That can’t be true if every country that was communism is moving to capitalism. EDIT: thank you all. Almost 300 comments in 3 days is incredible. I will no longer be responding. Thank you for the amazing debate and a fun time. I will probably post another post someday but not anytime soon. I’ll go back to being a lurker. Goodbye and good luck.
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Saying communism killed people is like saying capitalism killed people, or feudalism did.

It's not *untrue* in a sense, but it's not a very meaningful statement, and is almost always disingenuous. I'd argue that it takes away from the victims' plights and obscures the perpetrators.

It's like blaming the deaths at German hands in WWII on corporatism. It places the blame on an abstraction, and overlooks the actual direct causes. Hitler didn't need to kill 6 million Jews because he wanted a corporatist economy. He was an evil shit killing them out of racism and political expediency.

Stalin didn't need to let Ukrainians starve in the Holodomor because of communism. He was evil and heartless, and it was a cheap way to quell unrest.

You could say capitalism caused the genocide of Native Americans. But really, it was indifference and racial hatred, combined with the desire to claim more land, which you see in every economic system.

Sure, you can connect dots between an abstract or theoretical system and deaths, and some more closely than others. But it's a very superficial train of thought, one used mostly to sling shit at people for lack of more creative insults or insightful criticism.