Again, I'm not a tankie who supports the USSR or China and I think people who do might as well be fascists but you said
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Pointing to a model that was even more efficient at brutalizing and oppressing their own population as a success story for central planning is once again dishonest if you don't acknowledge said brutality and if you do acknowledge it then it's just not a good argument. You're supposed to be proposing something better than capitalism and instead you're pointing to something that was just as if not more brutal and exploitative but they just did it quicker and with a higher death toll in a shorter amount of time.
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And I'm saying that capitalism has in fact acted in similar ways with vastly high body counts and portraying capitalism as in fact being less of a killer is not correct and whether or not you intend to imply that it implies that one is preferable to the other whereas I would say that Soviet style socialism and capitalist imperialism both tend to murder lots of people. One just tends to commit mass murder within a country's borders and one tends to commit mass murder as an export.