• MBEverding@mastodon.social
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    1 month ago

    @Deceptichum Churchill starved Indians by taking their food and giving it to military during the war. It’s less about capitalism but more being a colonialist dick. Stalin starving Ukrainians to sell their grain is a capitalist pig.

    • lumpenproletariat@quokk.auOPM
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      1 month ago

      Mate, the Great Famine of 1876–1878 which killed 8 million was about capitalism. They exported food to make a profit rather than give it to the people living there.

      And that’s only the biggest, there were multiple famines made far worse due to British capitalism from the 1700s onwards.

      And the same goes with the great famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1852.

      Are you honestly so ignorant of history that you think the only famine that ever happened was during WW2?