modern, "visionary" totalitarianisms in which any horror is permissible to achieve the promise of utopia
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there are plenty of less insane ideologies to choose from
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Reasonable ideologies still created lots of victims, even if victims were across the ocean.
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nothing is pure upside. that doesn't mean your only options are world-destructive systems that trivialize massacre..
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...as serving higher purpose and drive their populaces to lunacy
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Nothing is pure upside - gender and race equality, worker rights were driven by Communists or fear of them.
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lol tell that to the 30m who died in the great leap forward, the kulaks, the 20% of the cambodian population culled
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India&Ireland famines, Africa concentration camps etc-capitalism.RUS Kulaks could cooperate,German Jews couldn't.
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Re Great Leap, Chinese arrived at "70% good/30% bad" formula for Mao and won't apologize as they are winning.
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lol you're just a commie apologist, everything they did was a tragic mistake in understandable circumstances innit?
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and fwiw china only started improving once it threw maoism in the garbage
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