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Old February 16th, 2018, 12:13 AM   #829
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Originally Posted by scoundrel View Post
When you contemplate the huge number of deaths in the 1930s under Stalin and Beria, and the death toll of the so-called Cultural Revolution in China between 1962 and 1976, you have to wonder whether this was absolutely necessary, even as an antidote to feudalism and backwardness.
There's not such a thing in Kapital. "Kill x million citizens", "exterminate all sparrows" or "made part of country into contrentration camp" can not be found there, as well as in Western-democracy theories you can't read "declare war to whole World", "cure AIDS by raping virgins" or, well, "made part of country into contentration camp".

Beside that, Lenin (except up to 1921) and Stalin were not communists, or at least not ever anything near to good ones. Their works qualifies them as just dictators.
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