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Reddit mentions of Capitalism: A Structural Genocide
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Tally of Unarmed Civilians Deliberately Killed by the USA, in The Triumph of Evil by Austin Murphy
For discussion of structural violence, Capitalism: A Structural Genocide by Gary Leech is also pretty good.
What if that behaviour is exploitative and destructive on a gross scale?
Is forcing people to abolish the institution of private property over humans (more commonly known as slavery) wrong? I have no problem forcing an oppressor to cease their oppressive actions and behaviour - I'd almost bet my life that you don't either. There's nothing wrong with attacking an attacker to stop them harming others.
The issue then becomes a disagreement on whether or not Capitalism is an inherently oppressive means of social organisation, whose internal logic leads to misery and exploitation on a grand scale. On that note, neither I, nor anybody else is going to be able to convince you here, through this medium that the subjective violence which arose from the implementation of socialism, pales in comparison to the daily, objective violence that naturally, and necessarily arises from Capitalism. If you are interested in understanding and exploring this idea further, I'd highly recommend reading these two books in this order:
by Garry Leech
Just to give you a feel for what we mean by 'objective violence'. The world's poor are poor for structural reasons, not a lack of boot-strappyness. It is not profitable to help the poor. R&D is funnelled into the most profitable ventures to maximise ROI - in the case of pharmaceuticals, that's going to be anti-depressants and skin care products, not malaria vaccines or cures for communicable diseases which disproportionately affect the global south. Thus, millions upon millions needlessly die every year- not because we don't have the means to prevent this from happening, but simply because it's not profitable to prevent it from happening. Therein lies the violence as a result of the internal logic. Any single pharmaceutical company that takes it upon itself to fix the ills of the world, will be forced out of the industry in a few short years by those who don't. In short, the violence doesn't stem from a subject, but rather is an objective feature of the means of organisation in itself.
> See the problem with this is that we aren't those people so we cannot really know.
"You weren't there, you can't know that!" Hmm, where have I heard this reasoning before? You are literally using the same philosophical paradigm to understand world history as young earth creationists are and it is leading you to making your arguments the same way that they do. Please, read up on historical materialism if you want to avoid such embarrassments in the future.
> That's quite an astounding claim that I'd interested in reading more about. I'll read it when I get the chance.
Capitalism has been genocidal since day 1, so it really is not that astounding a claim, but it is still a great read.
> Nor am I, but as I stated earlier organized religion necessarily and always follows from personal religious practice. If you allow a you're a always going to get b. Therefore it follows that you don't allow a.
So, how does human spiritual practice in the hunter gatherer societies that we grew up in as a species necessarily lead to the Roman Catholic Church of the European dark ages?
As I'm adding to this I'll try to keep Web sources at the top.
Here's death counts for a few of capitalism's greatest achievements (I'll let you sort through sources to contradict me - please do!):