So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the "Victims of Communism" webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn't alone. Here, the author recounts how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century.
#Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
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You got me reading this one too. Hard going but so important.
@[email protected] It's grim as fuck! But important, as you say. Also, I appreciate how Davis recounts the mass death FIRST, then proceeds to explain the history and mechanisms of ENSO, which, without that backdrop, would be dry and boring. @[email protected] @[email protected]