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100 MILLION DEAD AT MINIMUM BECAUSE OF CAPITALISM (hexbear.net)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a link for where they writers of the Black Book admit they made it up?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It was the editor that was making shit up. You can read about this even on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism [In particular, Margolin, who authored the book's chapter on Vietnam, stated that "he has never mentioned a million deaths in Vietnam"]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Huh I recall reading the wiki page about this sometime in the past decade and it presented the academic consensus that the BBofC was polemical bullshit and now the wiki page is like “controversial yet thought provoking”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

yeahhh the criticism section was folded into reception to maintain "neutrality"

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