MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WERE SHOT, STARVED, WORKED TO DEATH AND ENSLAVED BY LEFTWING LEADERS OVER THE LAST 115 YEARS. NEVER FORGET!
Posted by Britain First on Saturday, May 2, 2015
I just acquired a right wing Facebook friend. I never had one of those before. This is someone who has lived in a blood red state without budging since we last encountered one another in our college years many decades ago. If he actually looks at my posts he'll probably have a stroke.
Anyway he shared what is pictured above and I thought it interesting that an apparent thing in British right wing politics is to rail about Communism, again. It's interesting because you can bet American conservatives are playing close attention to anything that seems to appeal to ignorant, fear besotted, English speaking, provincial yokels.
But it was the numbers that really caught my attention. If you kill 100,000,000 people in 115 years, you must dispatch a mere 860,000 people a year. So I thought it might be amusing to examine how many preventable deaths have been dealt out each year by some of the excesses of Capitalism. I quickly found some intriguing numbers.
818,400 traffic deaths per year in the Capitalist parts of the World (WHO 2010)
5,400,000 Worldwide deaths per year from tobacco (WHO)
7,000,000 deaths per year linked to environmental causes (WHO) Sure, a lot of these are in Communist countries and Communists are terrible environmentalists, but there is still a huge butcher's bill left to the credit of Capitalism in this number.
6,804,000 annual deaths in high income countries from lifestyle diseases (WHO) This number includes smoking related deaths, but also very many other causes)
1,455,590 unnecessary deaths from George Bush's totally unnecessary Iraq war (That number took a few years to pile up, but it's got to count for something in this tally)
So, the honest point to be made here is that if Communism killed 100,000,000 people between the 1860's and the 1980's (a dishonest number in itself, but that's for another time), then killer Communism is pretty much a slacker compared to killer Capitalism. I looks like while Communism was knocking of 100,000,000 folks, Capitalism whacked around half a billion, or so.
NEVER FORGET!