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Comment author: [deleted] 25 November 2013 08:28:30PM -2 points [-]

Well, "outside" of capitalism was pretty thoroughly explored in the 20th century and while they produced some really splendid music the 200 million dead by the hands of their own governments was admittedly a bit of a bummer.

So every possible system other than capitalism leads to genocide? Surely you can't actually believe that.

Comment author: Lumifer 25 November 2013 08:34:17PM 5 points [-]

Out of all alternatives to capitalism that have actually been tried in practice during the last several centuries, is there one which you like and which you think is clearly superior to capitalism?

Comment author: Moss_Piglet 25 November 2013 09:16:03PM 4 points [-]

Surely you can't actually believe that.

Very astute of you to notice that.

No, I'd go so far as to say that out of the six non-capitalist systems I mentioned only four were unarguably guilty of democide (the case against the mercantile powers relies on a stubborn refusal to understand how epidemiology works) and one of them is wholly innocent of murder on anything greater than the scale of a village.

The case for hunting and gathering just gets better and better.

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