Actually, all those deaths happened under famine, not out of malice.
Rural purges alone resulted in 2-5M direct deaths.
Also, the famines before Mao were much worse
The Great Leap forward resulted in the worst famine in history.
and China experienced a huge leap in health (perhaps the largest in history) under Maoism.
Actually life expectancy increased slower than KMT Taiwan the other East Asian countries at the time.
The only communist state that killed many people out of malice was Democratic Kampuchea. However, it's been established by leading Western Maoist scientists that the Khmer Rouge wasn't really communist because it killed far too many people and was far too much of a disaster.
So, communism is good and cool and not fail.
Chears.
Agreed, communism didn't kill enough liberals.
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Cheers.
maoist rebel news
Are those the official statistics that only show 15 million deaths?
That loss is 3 million people, not 15 or 30 million as Banister, Dikötter or Becker later came up with. In 1960 the natural loss of population was 4.57 per 1000. Multiply that out by about 650 million and we get about 3 million more deaths than births.
Useless, shitty methodology.
http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm#Mao
Banned from the Egypt thread:
I know you're aware of it, I'm just reminding you of the inconsistency.
The coup in Egypt is just another attempt by Western cultural-imperialists to spread liberal values and women's rights to countries that should rightfully be ruled by Sharia.
Also radfem is compatible with Sharia Law, Mohammed didn't marry a 9 year old/permit Muslims to sell their female slave into prostitution etc.
The most brutal genocide in history depends on how you calculate. It's either Maoism or malaria.
In any case
austism_mustang posted:It's only 1/100th Great Leap Forwards though.
Did You Know that second-hand Communism kills over 42000 non-Communists every year? www.thetruth.com/facts/
^^ salon defending judaism, surprise surprise
what codywilson was banned for posted:vice should do a documentary on somali female mutilation and how the females perpetuate and support it. i think that'd be interesting. it'd be PC (pretty cool)
This is actually legit. In the countries where FGC is practiced they don't see it as some evil patriarchal institution. It's actually an important cultural ceremony that everyone celebrates. Only the clueless western liberals who go into these countries to force their values upon the rest of the world are against it.
So chill. Nobody involuntarily stays at an entry level job for their whole life. It's just where everyone starts out.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/george-zimmerman-emerged-hiding-truck-crash-rescue/story?id=19735432
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David Myatt (born 1950) – also known as David Wulstan Myatt and formerly known as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt – is the founder of The Numinous Way, a former British Muslim, and a former neo-nazi.
"A British iconoclast who has lived a somewhat itinerant life and has undertaken an equally desultory intellectual quest, Myatt is emblematic of the modern syncretism of radical ideologies", and regarded as an "example of the axis between right-wing extremists and Islamists". He has been described as one of the more interesting figures on the British neo-Nazi scene since the 1970s.
Before his conversion to Islam in 1998, Myatt was the first leader of the British National Socialist Movement (NSM), and was identified by the British newspaper, The Observer, as the "ideological heavyweight" behind Combat 18.
At a 2003 UNESCO conference in Paris, which concerned the growth of anti-Semitism, it was stated that "David Myatt, the leading hardline Nazi intellectual in Britain since the 1960s has converted to Islam, praises bin Laden and al Qaeda, calls the 9/11 attacks 'acts of heroism,' and urges the killing of Jews. Myatt, under the name Abdul Aziz Ibn Myatt supports suicide missions and urges young Muslims to take up Jihad. Observers warn that Myatt is a dangerous man..." This view of Myatt as a radical Muslim, or Jihadi, is supported by Professor Robert S. Wistrich, who writes that Myatt, when a Muslim, was a staunch advocate of "Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews..." and also "an ardent defender of bin Laden". One of Myatt's writings justifying suicide attacks was, for several years, on the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (the military wing) section of the Hamas website.
Political scientist Professor George Michael writes that Myatt has "arguably done more than any other theorist to develop a synthesis of the extreme right and Islam".
Myatt came to public attention in 1999, a year after his Islamic conversion, when a pamphlet he wrote many years earlier, A Practical Guide to Aryan Revolution, described as a "detailed step-by-step guide for terrorist insurrection", was said to have inspired David Copeland, who left nailbombs in areas frequented by London's black, Asian, and gay communities. Three people died and 129 were injured in the explosions, several of them losing limbs.
Since 2010 Myatt has written extensively about his rejection of both Islam and his extremist past, writing that: "What I came to understand, via pathei-mathos, was the importance - the human necessity, the virtue - of love, and how love expresses or can express the numinous in the most sublime, the most human, way. Of how extremism (of whatever political or religious or ideological kind) places some abstraction, some ideation, some notion of duty to some ideation, before a personal love, before a knowing and an appreciation of the numinous."
In addition to writing about Islam and National Socialism, Myatt has translated works by Sophocles, Sappho, Aeschylus, and Homer, and written several collections of poems. He has also developed a mystical philosophy which he calls both The Numinous Way and the Way of Pathei-Mathos, and invented a three-dimensional board-game, the Star Game.
Leftists.
They won't argue with economists.
But they will argue with someone who defends the DPRK.
This is what it's like talking to them:
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to this site for waking me out of that phase.
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Superabound posted:White Christians beheaded at least 20,000 people during a single 4-year period of European history. Modern Muslims are a model of compassion and restraint comparatively.
it was actually within a year and the figures of the subsequent thermidorian reaction rank up to 100k-125k bodies.
wasted posted:Superabound posted:White Christians beheaded at least 20,000 people during a single 4-year period of European history. Modern Muslims are a model of compassion and restraint comparatively.
it was actually within a year and the figures of the subsequent thermidorian reaction rank up to 100k-125k bodies.
now THATS what I call METAL
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Why did state communism collapse in the 80s?
Diminishing returns on capital
Oil depletion
Increasing exploitation by bureaucratic elites
Consumer goods subsidies and de-emphasis of heavy industry began under Khrushchev
Increasing investment rate
Increasing military spending
Falling oil prices
Insufficient dedication to Juche thought
Libertarianism is a combination of low tolerance for ambiguity and anal retentiveness. The second one is why we're all about gold.
What do you think?