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Old 03-10-2005, 09:46 AM   #93 (permalink)
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As for Lenin and Marx resulting in 100 million killed... the same can be said of Capitalism... In the early days of the Industrial revolution to today there have been millions of people (globally speaking) that have been exploited and/or killed due to lack of regulations... It doesn't have to happen at the end of a gun or in gulag to make it count..
Stalin intentionally starved between 20-30 million Ukranians on his own. A sweatshop owner does not intentionally kill anyone.

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gain, the answer to this lies somewhere in the middle ground between the two extremes
I agree. However, putting communism and capitalism on the same moral plane is insulting.
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