Comments by "The french are harlequins" (@thefrenchareharlequins2743) on "Twelve Lies about Reality." video.
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@Silvannetwork Use notepad to record your comments, in case they get deleted.
1) Soviet archival evidence does give the death toll at much lower than is thought. It remains debated to this day. Historians that have used archival evidence from Communist China such as Frank Dikotter, Yang Jisheng, Chen Yizi and Yu Xiguang give the death toll at ~40,000,000. I will give you the Black Book of Communism is nonsense. It's what to be expected when the French write a book.
2) The death tolls are calculated based deaths due to foreseeable consequences of state decisions and deliberate executions by the state. Deliberate executions by the state are counted when executions are based on ideological reasons.
3) I would call upwards of 1.5 million in Cambodia and anywhere between 200,000 - 3,500,000 or perhaps more in North Korea to be not high. Of course I am cherry picking the worst examples other than Russia and China. As far as democide goes, most other communist states weren't so terrible.
4) There are various forms of socialism. When you have an ideology that broadly advocates "that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole" it is to be expected.
As for the East India Company, it was chartered by the British monarchy in order to affect other monarchies wallets in East India and make the British monarchy more money, which is why it was given a monopoly on English trade enforced by the crown. The Anglo-Saxon model does not promote any state doing anything much really.
A master owns a slave in the same way a mugger owns your wallet, or in the same way Leopold II owned the Congo.
There are numerous reasons for the US's high death toll. For one they have higher population. If we add together France and Germany's population and times it by two, we get roughly the same as the US's population. If we do the same for coronavirus death tolls, we get roughly 350,000 deaths. It is still short of the US's 560,000 however another factor is the US's most famous stereotype: obesity. According to "Individuals with obesity and COVID-19: A global perspective on the epidemiology and biological relationships", people with obesity who contracted SARS-CoV-2 were 113% more likely than people of healthy weight to land in the hospital, 74% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 48% more likely to die (No wonder the UK is also practically being slaughtered).
Correct me if I am wrong, but most individualists in America wanted to use the Swedish model. They have a population of 10,000,000 which goes into America's population 30 times. If we are to use a scale factor on Sweden's death toll, we get a around third less deaths than what America has at the moment. As for Asian socialist countries... China's 4,000 deaths must be underestimated.
Why do socialists make the argument that "they were always at war against antagonistic powers"? America has been at war for 225 of the 243 years since her inception in 1776. It has faced complete subjugation twice. France since the establishment of the Third Republic faced subjugation twice, once successfully Meanwhile, Soviet Russia was threatened with subjugation twice. Communist China was threatened with subjugation once.
Socialism has failed too many times for him to consider it , in as distant cultures as Germany and Korea (Germany was bombed to the ground and the Gambia today is richer than Korea in 1945. Both peoples are industrious, a main factor in kickstarting their economies). He speaks of it as a science experiment.
I must say though, I will consider reading Trotsky's book, after Nichomachean Ethics, Basic Economics and the Communist Manifesto. I do want to understand the ideology more.
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