shouldn't those be included in preventable disease too? So many of the world's problems are caused by capitalists over-exploiting resources and hoarding wealth. Alternatively, we could abolish borders and establish a global, united socialist government or federation, though this would need to have a very rigorous and strict democracy to ensure the prevention of corruption and incompetent council members or leaders. Communism places the means of its production in the hands of its only and sole producers - not capitalism, but workers. Capitalism has killed way more than communism. People such as myself have been around for a long time, YouTubers such as Viki 1999, Spooky Scary Socialist and more have addressed the deaths partially or wholly caused by the system in the past; so why do so many people remain unaware of the effects of unregulated capitalism? Only an actual revolution can bring about the fundamental change that is needed. Socialism kills incentives for people to innovate and climb the ladder of success.â ... âCapitalismâ viewed positively by about two-thirds of Americans. But for the vast majority of the world, capitalism is a failure. I'm pretty sure that it's 9.5 million people that die from starvation annually. It is undeniable that society has deregulated barriers against capitalist expansion under neoliberalism. The fact that everything kills is not an excuse against progress. 474 likes. https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-07-2019-world-hunger-is-still-not-going-down-after-three-years-and-obesity-is-still-growing-un-report. And those corrupt assholes are called capitalists. Socialism on the other hand never killed anyone because it is just the leader’s fault. It is also undeniable that capitalist countries impose heavy sanctions on socialist countries, making it extremely difficult to feed and treat people - those deaths in socialist hellholes are directly attributed to capitalism. People suffer and die painful deaths. Yes, but when an economic system is causing millions of preventable deaths there is a problem. Paul Buchheit is an advocate for social and economic justice, and the author of numerous papers on economic inequality and cognitive science. Capitalismâs failures arise from two of its defining elements. Credit to Viki 1999 for the inspiration to make this essay, it’s not really much different to her video besides me trying my hardest to avoid bias and make more points and include more evidence and reasoning. It is not profitable to export food to countries such as Ethiopia or Chad; because of this, not only do people starve, but some people are overnourished because of an oversupply in their area, causing 9.1 million people to starve to death or die of malnourishment each year (3.1 million of whom are children who conservatives seem to care so much about, but who cares how a child dies, as long as they aren't killed before being born, right?! INDEPENDENT, 2 Aug. 2006, https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-secret-life-of-sparrows-410252.html, Tombstone: the Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, by Jisheng Yang et al., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, p. 126.https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nadqrYU10eMC&redir_esc=y, Tombstone: the Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962, by Jisheng Yang et al., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013, p. 240.https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nadqrYU10eMC&redir_esc=y. Capitalism Kills! Capitalism places the control over that food as a material commodity in the hands of increasingly fewer people. This, combined with restrictions and sanctions from the USA has caused the crisis in Venezuela. They could fix the issues that kill 20 million a year but they won't because most of these deaths come from the third world, a place where poverty and corruption are high, making the labor pool plentiful and the workers expendable to capitalists. “Countries With the Most Natural Resources.” WorldAtlas, WorldAtlas, 29 Aug. 2018, https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-natural-resources.html. The larger the labor pool, the less incentives capitalists have to care for their workers. Mao made dumb decisions. We have many choices, but the three that seemed most apparent were an internationally funded relief organization, heavier regulations on the free market or establishment of a global democratic socialist government. Economic growth is the aggregate effect of the quest to accumulate capital and extract profit. 2019, https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/15-07-2019-world-hunger-is-still-not-going-down-after-three-years-and-obesity-is-still-growing-un-report. 30,000 US Revolutionary War 35,700 (If Russa removes a Monarch its bad right?) Offit, Paul A. Doesn't this have the same validity in the same way that communist deaths happened because communist leaders were allowed to be in charge and do shit, or because it indirectly killed people despite not wanting to do so? U.S. In this same way, it is not profitable to relieve or distribute food to those who are starving and incapable of purchasing the products, making the deaths caused by starvation due to poverty the fault of unregulated capitalism. Now, the context of your reply is in the present tense, so I believe you're referring to what you know about communist countries of today and what you have been taught. Belén Fernández is the author of "Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World" and "The Imperial Messenger: Thomas Friedman at Work." I provided sources and numbers for my claims. To keep capitalism running the people must maintain unawareness of the adverse effects caused in our civilization by free marketeers and what businesses often do for mere profit. There are economic systems that desire to keep that telescoping and ever increasing technology and accumulation of capital (as in combined and stuff like that) while also serving the needs of the people all around the world regardless of profit. The nature of capitalism is for gargantuan firms peruse profits at all cost, ignoring the long-term effects of their actions on the environment, community, and their fellow man. “The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World”. Yes. Market Socialism for example. 2015, https://www.who.int/mediacentre/commentaries/vaccine-preventable-diseases/en/. For example, in the Black Book of Communism, the Great Chinese Famine is cited as a cause for 43 million deaths, despite the Great Chinese Famine being caused by mistakes from experts and many factors, of which none are caused by socialist theory. https://www.fao.org/state-of-food-security-nutrition/2018/en/. On the morning of February 19, 2019, in Nizhny Tagil, Sergei Chernykh, a young worker, left his bossâs office, put a noose around his neck, and jumped off a raised area, damaging his spine and suffocating in mere seconds. Propaganda was one of the many ways the Soviet Union tried to control its citizens. Many of the people who did starve and die in socialist countries are figures from manipulated statistics and they have no evidence as to how they are caused by socialist theory rather than authoritarian leadership or outside factors. The true mass murdering evil of capitalism exposed: 1.6 billion Killed United States Imperialism: Hurricane Katrina (deliberate faulty construction) 1,836 NATO Intervention in Libya 2011 15,000 Tamils killed by US backed Sri Lankan Gov. Nah couldn't be communism has killed 700 trillion people and capitalism save 700 trillion from poverty duh. If I post this analysis to r/capitalism it's probably going to get removed so the only people who are going to see this are probably already communist so, eh. Mercy Corps, 8 May. Helping people out isn't the nature of capitalism. One of the common myths we hear is that capitalism kills, however, as I point out, there is no possible way from evidence shown to suggest where individualism led to mass graves. We could also implement more regulations of capitalism; while it would reduce the freedom of the market and push us closer towards socialism, we could stop these deaths while still maintaining a capitalistic system. For instance, if someone starved because they donât have enough money, this is the fault of capitalism, but if someone starved because they werenât able to harvest enough food, this is probably the fault of nature. It makes me wonder how they define capitalism. In a world dominated by capitalism, the idea that capitalism kills may seem alien and outlandish, especially considering how widely accepted the system is; the only reason for this global acceptance is the deceptions, denial and deceit fed to the public by capitalist corporations and governments to maintain the widespread denial and blissful ignorance of the fatalities and deprivation caused by the most used economic system of today. https://www.who.int/mediacentre/commentaries/vaccine-preventable-diseases/en/, https://www.fao.org/resilience/resources/resources-detail/en/c/1187704/, https://www.mercycorps.org/blog/quick-facts-global-hunger, https://medium.com/@jeremyerdman/we-produce-enough-food-to-feed-10-billion-people-so-why-does-hunger-still-exist-8086d2657539, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241746569_We_Already_Grow_Enough_Food_for_10_Billion_People_and_Still_Can't_End_Hunger, https://www.who.int/en/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/immunization-coverage, https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/the-secret-life-of-sparrows-410252.html, https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nadqrYU10eMC&redir_esc=y, https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-natural-resources.html, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/venezuelas-crisis-in-5-charts/2019/01/26/97af60a6-20c4-11e9-a759-2b8541bbbe20_story.html. Advances in technology are continuous and inevitable. I ask for productive debate, and if you have responded to this post in a debating subreddit I would suggest debate, rather then an argument. “Together We Can Close the Immunization Gap.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 22 Apr. "The secret life of sparrows". There are many videos claiming that communism killed millions and just as many claiming that capitalism killed more people than that. O'Grady, Siobhán, et al. 168K likes. Some people have such a vague definition that they can claim that the USSR was capitalist. EDIT: And here's a fantastic video on the subject from Viki 1999 https://youtu.be/wflMmNTXqKk, But what if I redefine the poverty line to be half a cent a day and instantaneously lift 50,000,000 people out of poverty, checkmate socialists ð. People holding a banner reading 'capitalism kills' attend a protest march against the G20 Summit with the topic 'Solidarity without borders instead of G20' in Hamburg, Germany on July 8, 2017. Upon what reasoning do you base your belief that non-binary people aren't valid? 13 million of these 43 million deaths are caused by reduced birth rates during the famine, which is not valid numbers or statistics. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Off topic but do you watch J Kenji Lopez-Alt. Communist propaganda in the Soviet Union was based on the MarxistâLeninist ideology to promote the Communist Party line. ), 2.8 million to die of obesity, 1.5 million deaths from preventable diseases, 3.575 million deaths from dirty water, for a grand total of approximately 16.975 million deaths due to unregulated capitalism annually. It then took hold in countries with backward economies or which were recovering from war. 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