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As an example just in China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine_deat..., due to economic mismanagement. I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government, which I suspect would be hard as capitalist governments by definition don't exercise complete centralised control over the country's economic production.


> I'd be interested to see any sources showing a similar number of deaths under a capitalist government

Have you ever tried yourself? It's not a very hard thing to start to compile. The problem here is ideological though. Everything that would be added to the capitalism list would be rationalized away even if it uses the same measurement stick.




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