> -----Original Message-----
> >On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Alexandre Fenelon wrote:
> >
> >>Well, the black book of Communism gives us the following estimates
> >>1-China: 55 millions
> >>2-USSR: 15 millions
> >>3-North Korea: 1 million
> >>4-Vietnam: 1 million
To return to this thread-
How about a Black Book of Capitalism and Colonialism count?
I just got a copy of Adam Hochschild's KING LEOPOL'S GHOST which argues for 10 million deaths due to colonial murder and terror in the Congo alone. I remember reading about tens of millions killed in China in the late 19th century hegemony by the European powers.
Now, if the Right counts governments refusing food to certain regions and thereby inducing famine as part of the body count, does the Black Book of Capitalism count the refusal of patented medicines to the third world as part of its body count?
Or is the game that only officially state-centralized governments get famine and disease attributed to deliberate policy, while capitalism would get a "shit happens" in the marketplace excuse?
Are there any useful compilations of mass death under the capitalist/colonialist states that use similar expansive methodologies of murder attributed to those states?
--Nathan Newman