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Why does socialism seem so correlated or directly causitive to mass killings, I dont mean Denmark socialism, I mean like russian and the french kind at the time you're talking about.
I thoroughly support socialized medicine and collective access and all the "goodies" stuff about socialism, I'm just curious how theres was always at some point a leap from the good shit to dystopia.
Unfettered neoliberal Capitalism is no better but its a whole lot better at sweeping all the social murder under the rug and gaining political support every other 4 years the pendulum seems to incomprehensibly swing the far opposite direction...sigh
If you use violence to build a system, you end up with a system with violence built in it.
Soviet Union had the idea of "Proletariat's dictatorship", which is so far detached from the core reasons that are used to justify socialism, that to me it looks ridiculous that people ever thought it could work.
It could be that the mass killing take place because people are trying to use force to install the new system.