No, it's not. It's fact. The precise numbers will never be known, of course, because unlike the Germans, Marxists don't keep detailed records, but the research has been done, and I've pointed to one credible source. There are others, but the consensus is that at least 100 million people have been killed by Marxist regimes in the last century.sandinista wrote:
It's the number I question. Period. It's propaganda.
True enough, but few of the magnitude of Marxism, which explicitly calls for the elimination of counterrevolutionaries and other disruptive influences as a part of the ideology itself. The Marxist purges are not the result of "capitalist greed" or some other indirect cause such as famines or riots as the leftist so-called rebuttals you cited claim, they are an express part of the Marxist ideology, which as a basic function disregards the value of the individual and human life in favor of abstract collectivist principles that not only allow such purges, but DEMAND such purges in order to purify the Proletariat of disruptive influences. Marxism cannot tolerate dissent or counterrevolution, so it calls for such persons to be eliminated.If you want to put labels on governments (In some kind of vague left/right terminology), there have been many millions of deaths as a result of the "left" "right" and "center".
Capitalism does no such thing. It's merely an economic theory and model that says nothing about politics one way or another, and which, as we can see, is used in modified form even by some Marxist societies. So, it is simply ignorant propaganda to attribute democide to capitalism, since capitalism is not a political ideology.
While bad things may happen in any culture, under any political ideology, Marxism, and its progeny, are the prime purveyors of deliberate, intentional democide as a mechanism of social purification.
And that makes the ideology irredeemably corrupt and evil.