Black Book of Capitalism? (RE: The 20th Century - The Economist

[Jim heartfield]

In message <006501bf00df$d5f25a00$a5f48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman
<nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes
>Are there any useful compilations of mass death under the
>capitalist/colonialist states that use similar expansive methodologies of
>murder attributed to those states?

First world war

                Deaths
British Empire    947 000
French Empire   1 400 000
Germany         1 800 000
Austria-H       1 200 000
Russia          1 700 000
USA               116 000
Italy             650 000
Serbia             48 000

Second world war:

        military casualties     civilian casualties

USSR    13 600 000              7 700 000
Germany 3 480 000               3 890 000
Japan   1 700 000                 360 000
Britain   452 000                  60 000
Italy     330 000                  85 000
USA       295 000
France    250 000                 360 000
Poland    120 000               5 300 000

(TG Charman Modern European History)

Plus Jews exterminated          6 000 000

Bengal famine 1943              3 500 000*

[Running total for two world wars:  55,343,000]

Indonesia 1965: 1 000 000
Vietnam 1950-75 1 000 000 
Iraq 1992         250 000

(John Stockwell, former CIA operation manager in Angola put the total
deaths attributable to the US in the forty years after the second world
war at 6 000 000, which he said was a conservative estimate. He put it
to Kissinger who said the total was nearer 16 000 000. Speech Nicaragua
Solidarity Conference 6 May 1989)

So by Kissinger's estimate, you could say 55,343,000 + 16 000 000 =  
71,343,000 + 250 000 Iraqis = 71,593,000. (on top of the 10 000 000
killed in the Belgian Congo)

*starved because Britain withdrew grain from the countryside to deny it
to invading INA troops.
-- 
Jim heartfield