XPost: alt.activism, alt.politics, alt.politics.economics   
   From: tim.howard@cox.net   
      
   Stan de SD wrote:   
      
   >>>>>Your ignorance shows, Timmy.   
      
   First of all, my name is not Tiny Timmy.   
   Second of all, I did not "defend communism", nor did I criticize either.   
   Third of all, I did not discuss individual communist dictators either.   
      
   What I was saying, in response to Tarzan from a few posts ago, who got   
   off topic by talking about how many people communist dictators have   
   killed, instead of addressing the issue of 1% controlling almost all the   
   wealth, was that capitalism kills but not in such a direct way.   
      
   >>As for your 100,000,000 figure, I am not sure how you come up with one   
   >>that is that high,   
   >   
   >   
   > It's called a "body count", Timmy, and in the case of communism, it's based   
   > on REAL deaths, not ones extrapolated by asking the same people in certain   
   > neighborhoods in Iraq the same question over and over.   
   >   
   Again, like BC, you cannot stay on topic.  We are not talking about Iraq   
   here.   
   >   
   >>but the international global capitalist system that   
   >>has been in place for the last 100 years, and certainly since the end of   
   >>WWII (Bretton-Woods Conference) is at least indirectly responsible for   
   >>millions and millions of deaths too due to all that starving and strife   
   >>that you alluded to.   
   >   
   > Tell us why people are starving in Cuba, Zimbabwe, and North Korea,   
      
   There is no mass starvation in Cuba.  In Zimbabwe there is "selective   
   starvation", where the Gov. is deliberatly targeting areas where it's   
   perceived enemies are.  As unjust as that is, it is not due to an   
   economic failure.  North Koreans are starving because Kim Jung Il has   
   isolated them from the world.  What is happening there would happen to   
   any poor nation, even a capitalist nation.   
      
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