• FlyingCircus@lemmy.world
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    Not nearly as bad as the US/Western Bourgeois. 10 million people die every year from starvation and preventable disease. These deaths can be tied directly to the system of capitalism that uses state imperialism to exploit global south countries, keeping them impoverished, and then withholding food and medicine because it is not profitable to send aid to the countries they have ravaged. The United States alone has killed a further 38 million people in the last 50 years through economic sanctions based on ideological differences.

    Even if you believe the most extreme estimates of deaths caused by the Chinese government, and fully attribute them to malice instead of a combination of incompetence and natural famine cycles, the number of people who died is dwarfed by the ongoing slaughter of capitalism.