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.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] The British Empire repeatedly let its colonies starve simply because food could be sold for a profit somewhere else.
They've done that in so many places.
Sure, not each colony every single time, but that just makes it clear they always had a choice and chose to let people starve.
If you own 1/3 of the world, you really can't convince me you don't have the resources, anyway.