Europe is too much of a soft touch

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Mao alone killed more of his own people than died in ww 2. Stalin was just as sick

I would not doubt that; but neither compares to Capitalism. And despite its initial benefits, its mechanisms are such, it takes killing humans to a whole new level; that no other known 'ism' has come close to.

I don't know britkid. I don't see capitalism as the killer. May be the battle between the isms has more fault. Perhaps you are suggesting capitalism kills in order to keep capital flowing? Communism kills in order to maintain centralized power.I think we are wandering off the topic itself and blaming the institution instead of the sickness of man. You are much more versed in communism than I. What do you think Lenin would think of the two major communist countries that were founded and how they were founded and maintained. I can't see how you agree with me that Mao killed more people to maintain his communist regime than were killed in ww 2 and yet fall back on capitalism as the worst killer. Between Mao and Stalin we are talking over 100 million dead people. Beats capitalism hands down. Still, if Mao and Stalin were more interested in achieving a true communist country rather than a stranglehold on power perhaps it would have been different. Communism allowed these idiots to do what they did as they hid behind a power structure that allowed this to happen. No, capitalism is not a perfect system but I would not put a label of murderer upon it. Wars have been happening on this planet long before capitalism or communism came about. After millennia of warfare and killing to call capitalism the culprit seems shortsighted.