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    [–]Otacon 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

    most evil monsters in history were socialists?

    Citations needed. That and we're going to need definitions of what you mean by "history" and specifically what you mean by "evil". If history is just any and all accounts of past events then there's a whole lot of daily news to sift through from the past 200 years so we can pick out who did what and which ideology they subscribed to.

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      [–]Otacon 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      What is the top of your list look like

      I think I misread the initial post. I thought you said "most evil monsters" as in a quantitative statement, not "the most evil monsters" as in a qualitative.

      But I think trying to play "mass death high score" is absolutely pointless anyways. I could point to any ideology, object, or activity and show you some bonkers atrocitiy directly related to that thing. You have to look at the bigger picture to actually determine if something is worthwhile or not. Don't take that as a defense of communism, I'm just tired of people playing high scores as if crimes don't happen if it only happens to one person or if the crimes are committed by a mass of people.

      Also nazism and communism do not equal socialism. Saying communism equals socialism is like saying that cronyism is the only form of capitalism

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      Stalin, Mao and Churchill are top of my list. Two commies and an imperialist. I'm not sure what his ideology was other than hubris and serving (((them))) at the expense of the whole world.

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        [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        He's responsible for most of WW2, out of pride of not wanting to enter into peace with Hitler after having his armies dismantled by the Germans.

        [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Because most people are socialist. Name somebody who claims they are not, I'll point you to somebody who doesn't understand what it is.

        Wait, do you mean COMMUNISTS?

        [–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

        Because Peasants hated the Tsar. Became Socialists and were members of socialist farmer co-opts; Bolsheviks were then infiltrated by foreign nationals, many of them Jewish. Decided to then execute Peasants and anyone else, and then lived lavishly in Soviet Russia for many years. So, much for equality and egalitarianism.

        These are all just stupid labels though.

        It is the people, fallible as human natire is that front isms that lead to destruction. Capitalism has its fair share as well. Because it isn't the ism but the person(s).