I’d say “the fuck do I care what Stalinism did, I’m an anarchist” but if I felt obligated to defend Marxism in general from the actions of its hypocrites?
The British Empire and British East India company for example caused both Bengal famines (and the Irish Famine, and numerous famines in Africa, etc etc etc) The lesson is not truly that either capitalism or communism is to blame, but authoritarianism and statism as a whole.
Famine is used as a weapon by the people that won’t ever need to worry about where their next meal comes from. Those people can be capitalist as easily as communist, but it does make the communist a hypocrite. Can you say the say the same about the capitalist?
I’d say “the fuck do I care what Stalinism did, I’m an anarchist” but if I felt obligated to defend Marxism in general from the actions of its hypocrites?
The British Empire and British East India company for example caused both Bengal famines (and the Irish Famine, and numerous famines in Africa, etc etc etc) The lesson is not truly that either capitalism or communism is to blame, but authoritarianism and statism as a whole.
Famine is used as a weapon by the people that won’t ever need to worry about where their next meal comes from. Those people can be capitalist as easily as communist, but it does make the communist a hypocrite. Can you say the say the same about the capitalist?