Anyone have thoughts on why passions run so high around Jordan Peterson? Seems to be an unusually polarizing figure.
alright, well I can't argue with your subjective experience of relative frequency of topics in the media you personally consume. have you seen anyone deny or write apologia about the Great Depression though?
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No. But nor have I seen capitalists accept the death count of the Depression and WWII Western front as accruing to them and then comparing it to the deaths of communism. Let alone accept the death counts of various famines and genocides as in India and N. America.
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I think it's a bit disingenuous to group in WW2 deaths with deaths due to economic mismanagement. These are different categories of excess deaths. The issue of genocides due to colonialism is also another serious one, but not due to capitalism specifically, and not denied.
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I'm just trying to focus the discussion here basically, instead of letting it drift off into grouping together every bad thing ever done by "The West".
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what are the death totals due to starvation due to the Great Depression/Dust Bowl? this paper (http://www.pnas.org/content/106/41/17290.full …) discusses some mortality rates during the time period but I don't see anything about starvation deaths here. Curious for good sources if you know of any.
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I don't. The core question is this: is WWII caused by failures of capitalism? The argument is very strong that it is. The Weimar Republic was capitalist, standard analysis of the rise of the Nazis is minus their economic problems, no Nazi takeover.
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I'm not willing to start a debate about the causes of WW2 in this medium. It won't reveal any truths and will likely only induce divisive rhetoric. I think you're oversimplifying and desperately fishing for something, but I'm not sure what.
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I will suggest, since you don't trust my summary, then, to simply read about the causes of the rise of the Nazi party, and leave you be. I simply suggest that when one condemns a system for its crimes/failures, one must compare. I'll drop it here. All the best.
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