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Originally Posted by The Batlord
It's not a whataboutism because, again, I'm not defending or arguing for the USSR. I'm pointing out that capitalism can kill millions in a short period of time the same as socialism, which you had stated wasn't the case. We can throw the Belgian Congo in as well.
It's at best fixing your statement and at worst trivia.
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I didn't say anything about capitalism not being able to cause famines that kill a lot of people in a short period of time. I said that the central planning richard wolff refers to has killed millions of people every single time it was tried so the only innovation here is that you speed up industrialization via genocide. The fact that other genocides/famines have happened without said industrialization in other parts of the world is once again irrelevant. The point is he's pointing to the ussr as a success story of central planning so whether you claim to be defending the ussr or not, by responding to my criticism of his ussr example with a talking point about British colonial exploitation of india is once again whatabotism and just a distraction from the actual point. The bottom line is either you think rapid industrialization is worth killing off millions of peasants via starvation or I don't. If you don't then pointing to the rapid growth of the ussr is a moot point.
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