>>75264
>That guy is a joke. Just look at the deaths supposedly caused by the GDR. The GDR only sentenced a few people to death and the death at the border don't go beyond the hundreds, yet the guy claimed the GDR killed 70k people or something.
He was also a pioneer in his field, who tried to assemble statistics for a hundred countries or so, spanning a range of a good hundred years. On some counts, he was quite accurate, as with the USSR and Red China, which have killed at the very least twenty million each. But I guess that was just bad weather.
>He also doesn't make a difference between indirect and excessive deaths, so applying his own standard to capitalism would mean that capitalism kills 25 million people every five years which would exceed all of supposedly communist deaths within two decades.
His standards are a little more complex than that. See this:
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP2.HTM
The one democidal act that you could possibly subsume these 25 million under would be this:
>(2.5) a famine or epidemic during which government authorities withhold aid, or knowingly act in a way to make it more deadly;
If we apply this to foreign governments that do not help in case of a famine or epidemic, then the communist governments fare no better than the capitalist ones, as they help (and helped) just as little, even less. The reason why we cannot apply it like that is because that would be overstretching the term "withhold", and possibly also "famine" and "epidemic". My guess is you just repeated a fancy talking point instead of ever checking yourself if you can subsume deaths from AIDS or cancer under his definition.
I sincerely hope that you had at least enough honor not to include deaths from smoking in your figure of 25 million. I've seen commies do that.