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In Reply to: Not the Little Black Book *again*; it didn't wash last time... posted by Gideon Hallett on June 22, 1999 at 12:51:16:

: : Can communism as practiced by the Soviet Union, for instance, be considered evil? Do you dispute the body count of communsist governments. For the sake of this argument I will concede that pure marxism was not practiced in the USSR. My point to Sam was that the "Black Book of Communism" has claimed some 85 to 100 million murdered directly by their communist governments. Perhaps, because there is no perfection in this world, we can qualify degees of evil by tallying body counts. There isn't much argument being offered to dispute what is in the book. It was prepared by a group of well respected french researchers.

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: Capitalism is culpably responsible for the deaths of almost 100 million children every decade in the Third World. So much for your highly-touted little black book.

SDF: Interestingly enough. I've already disqualified Gideon Hallett's argument here against Stuart Gort. Pointing fingers at the other guy is no excuse for mass murder. The question we should be asking is whether the choice between state-capitalist imperialism (Stalin, Malenkov, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko) and corporate-capitalist imperialism (Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton) is the only choice we have.

Follow Ups:

• The point is... Stuart Gort USA June 25 1999 (4)
  • Cognitive dissonance 1, logic 0 Samuel Day Fassbinder Citizens for Mustard Greens USA June 28 1999 (2)
    • It's all in the label. Stuart Gort USA July 05 1999 (1)
      • Not really. Red Deathy Socialsit party UK July 05 1999 (0)
  • Or is it? Red Deathy Socialist party Uk June 27 1999 (0)
• Let's put our heads together and start a new country up... Gideon UK June 25 1999 (0)