THE BLACK POST OF CAPITALISM; "THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM" ALL SOCIALISTS/COMMUNISTS WILL HAVE HEARD CLAIMS ABOUT THE SUPPOSED DEATH TOLLS OF COMMUNIST/SOCIALIST REGIMES MOST COMMONLY PUSHED BY THE NOW INFAMOUS BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM A WIDELY DEBUNKED "STUDY" WHICH CLAIMS THAT A SHOCKING AND TERRIFYING 100 MIL PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN EVIL, TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST REGIMES YET THIS 100 MIL FIGURE IS A MYTH THE NUMBER WAS MASSIVELY INFLATED BY THE AUTHORS IN AN EFFORT TO REACH THE 100 MIL FIGURE INSTEAD OF STRIVING FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY THEY CHOSE TO COUNT THE DROPS IN BIRTH RATES THE DEATHS OF NAZI SOLDIERS AND RUSSIAN FASCISTS AS DEATHS DUE TO COMMUNISM THE BOOK IS SO DISCREDITED THAT EVEN 2 OF ITS OWN AUTHORS HAVE SINCE TRIED TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM IT SO WE SHALL BE CONFIDENTLY STATING THAT EVEN IF THOSE DEATHS FROM COMMUNISM WERE COMPLETE, 100% ACCURATE WHICH THEY ARE NOT THEN THE DEATHS CAUSED BY CAPITALISM STILL FAR EXCEEDS EVEN THESE WILDEST FIGURES FOR COMMUNISM THROWN AT US BY THE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM IT IS DIFFICULT TO KNOW WHERE TO START BUT WE COULD PERHAPS BEGIN WITH NEEDLESS STARVATION A COMMON ACCUSATION THROWN AT "COMMUNISM" ACCORDING TO THE UN 9 MIL PEOPLE DIE EVERY YEAR DUE TO HUNGER AND HUNGER RELATED DISEASES THIS IS IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT AS A PLANET WE EASILY MAKE ENOUGH FOOD FOR ALL OF THE PEOPLE OF EARTH THE INSTITUTE FOR FOOD AND DEVELOPEMENT POLICY CALCULATING THAT WE CURRENTLY MAKE ENOUGH FOOD TO FEED 1.5 TIMES THE WORLDS POPULATION HOWEVER DUE TO OVERCONSUMPTION MARKET INEFFENCIES AND LACK OF INCENTIVE TO BETTER DISTRIBUTE THE FOOD OVER 800 MIL PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY HUNGER MANY OF WHOM DIE THESE ARE PREVENTABLE DEATHS THESE ARE PREVENTABLE DEATHS THAT A BETTER, PLANNED, SOCIALIST/COMMUNIST SYSTEM COULD AVOID BY TAILORING SOCIETY TO MEET THE NEEDS OF ITS CITIZENS NEXT THERE ARE VACCINES AND MEDICATION ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 1.5 MIL PEOPLE DIE FROM VACCINE PREVENTABLE DISEASES THAT THEY COULDNT AFFORD TO GET VACCINATED FOR AGAIN THE MARKETS DONT INCENTIVISE COMPANIES TO HELP VACCINATE PEOPLE AND INSTEAD INCENTIVISE PROFIT AND MAKE PEOPLE PAY EXTORTIONATE SUMS OF MONEY FOR BASIC AND IMPORTANT MEDICATION SO MILLIONS WHO CANNOT AFFORD THEM HAVE TO GO WITHOUT THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN DURING THE COVID 19 CRISIS WHERE POORER COUNTRIES COULD NOT GET THERE HANDS ON VACCINES AS SOON AS THE RESOURCE RICH STATES SUCH AS THE USA OR BRITIAN ANOTHER PROBLEM IS LACK OF ACCESS TO CLEAN WATER WHICH CAUSES DISEASES THAT KILL OVER 1.6 MIL EVERY YEAR ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION 785 MIL PEOPLE LACK EVEN A BASIC DRINKING WATER SERVICE INCLUDING 144 MIL PEOPLE WHO ARE DEPENDENT ON SURFACE WATER GLOBALLY 2 BIL PEOPLE USE A DRINKING WATER SOURCE CONTAMINATED WITH FECESE WE HAVE INVENTED MULTIPLE WAYS TO PURIFYING IT FROM SIMPLY BOILING IT TO ADDING IODINE BUT BECAUSE OF CAPITALISMS PRIORITISATION OF PRIVATE PROFIT OVER HUMAN INTEREST THOSE RESOURCES DONT GO TO THOSE WHO DONT PAY (USUALLY THOSE WHO NEED THEM THE MOST) AND SO PEOPLE DIE POOR WORKING CONDITIONS CAN BE LINKED CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION WITH THE MARKET INCENTIVE PUSHING DOWN COST IN ORDER TO INCREASE PROFIT TERRIBLE WORKING CONDITIONS IN CAPITALISM ARE MADE INEVITABLE THIS CAN BE STARKLY HIGHLIGHTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR ORGANIZATION WHICH STATES THAT 350 MIL WORKPLACE ACCIDENTS AND ALMOST HALF THAT WORKPLACE DISEASES OCCUR ANUALLY THE ILO ALSO ESTIMATES THAT 2.3 MIL DIE FROM THIS EVERY YEAR CAPITALISM HAS ALSO BEEN FOUND TO BE THE LEADING CAUSE DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY OF WHAT ARE DEATHS OF DESPAIR THESE INCLUDES DEATHS FROM SUICIDE ALCOHOL DRUGS CAUSED BY THINGS SUCH AS LACK OF EMPLOYMENT POOR STANDARD OF LIVING AND SO ON ADDED UP THATS ABOUT 4 MIL DEATHS PER WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION ESTIMATES AND AGAIN IT IS NOT HARD TO SEE HOW IN A PLANNED, SOCIALIST SOCIETY UNEMPLOYMENT WOULD FALL MASSIVELY WITH DECENT WAGES AND DIGNITY FOR ALL AS SOCIETY WOULD NOT BE TAILORED FOR CUTTING OF COSTS AND MAXIMISATION OF PROFIT BUT INSTEAD FOR THE COMMON GOOD AND PURPOSE OF SOCIETY AS A WHOLE FOR THOSE COUNTING THIS AMOUNTS TO 20 MIL DEATHS A YEAR UNDER CAPITALISM IN OTHER WORDS A WHOLE BLACK BOOK OF COMMUNISM EVERY HALF DECADE AND THIS DOES NOT TOUCH UPON FACTORS SUCH AS WARS MASSACRES CONFLICTS AND GENOCIDES CAUSED BY OR PERPETUATED BY CAPITALIST COUNTRIES THESE HAVE ALL LEAD TO MASS SUFFERING AND COUNTLESS DEATHS IT ALSO DOES NOT FACTOR IN THE FUTURE SUFFERING TO BE CAUSED BY THE CAPITALIST CLIMATE CRISIS THERE IS THEREFORE NO CONTEST OUR CAPITALIST SYSTEM KILLS AND WILL CONTINUE TO KILL AT A FASTER AND MORE INTENSE RATE THAN COMMUNISM EVER HAS OR EVER WILL EVEN BY THE MOST HYSTERICAL AND ANTI COMMUNIST STANDARDS TO GAIN A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM MURDERS I RECOMMEND "THE CONDITIONS OF THE WORKING CLASS IN ENGLAND" BY FRIEDRICH ENGELS