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: : Capitalism is culpably responsible for the deaths of almost 100 million children every decade in the Third World. So much for your highly-touted little black book.
: SDF: Interestingly enough. I've already disqualified Gideon Hallett's argument here against Stuart Gort. Pointing fingers at the other guy is no excuse for mass murder. The question we should be asking is whether the choice between state-capitalist imperialism (Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko) and corporate-capitalist imperialism (Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton) is the only choice we have.
Never said it was, Sam. What I'm saying is that Stuart is holding up Communism as "bad" because it caused n million deaths; whereas his own pet ideology has caused just as many in a shorter time period. I'm not apologising for Communism here; I'm not a Communist.
Stuart's tactic is to hold up the Little Black Book and say "Ecce! Communism has caused n million deaths; ergo Communism Is Bad and North America's military intervention and capitalist agenda are automatically justified. I'm not saying that Communism is good; merely that Stuart is displaying hypocrisy in his stance, since his own pet system is just as guilty.
Personally, I am and always have been an anarchist; biased towards Schumacher-like "small is beautiful" communities based around voluntary co-operation; I believe the nation state to be an artificial and unwieldy construction.
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