CAPITALISM KILLS 10 MILLION KIDS A YEAR

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Capitalism Kills 10 Million Kids a Year



I've had it up to here with this "100 million killed by Communism", "Stalin and Mao, the biggest murderers of all time". No Communist except Pol Pot ever held a candle to what capitalist serial killers and mass murderers do year in and out without fail.

As you can see, 200 million kids around the world don't have access to any kind of basic health care (I would argue that that figure is way too low), which kills 10 million of them (5%) a year due to completely preventable diseases like pneumonia and diarrhea.

And if you are going to start bitching about overpopulation, number 1, why are you are capitalist? Capitalism mandates and demands an endlessly expanding population. Capitalism says a declining or even steady population is going to be a catastrophe for the capitalist economy.



Anyone in the Third World who comes into power and tries to do something about this mass murder gets called a Communist and the CIA tries to take him out, or he gets country-destroying sanctions put him, or the US invades his country, or the IMF - World Bank - Wall Street declare war on you, or the US starts up a reactionary Contra terrorist army to go around burning schools and health clinics to the ground and murdering the doctors and teachers.

Further, the entire world media - at least the US branch - including TV, radio, newspaper and newsmagazine, is 100% against anyone trying to fix this situation in any way, and launches a never-ending propaganda war against them.



http://robertlindsay.blogspot.com/2008/05/capitalism-kills-10-million-kids-year.html

[Perry Logan]

1. The drug trade kills countless people every year. That's certainly capitalism.

[seemslikeadream]

3. and that would be?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

7. That's correct

[seemslikeadream]

12. Perry where art thou?

I really would like you to clarify your post, I haven't seen you cover this subject in any of your idiotic YOUTUBE vids

[killbotfactory]

13. Drug running gangs are set up like a corporation

Here's a chapter from Freakonomics about it:

Chapter 3: Why Do Drug Dealers Still Live with Their Moms?

In other words, a crack gang works pretty much like the standard capitalist enterprise: you have to be near the top of the pyramid to make a big wage. Notwithstanding the leadership's rhetoric about the family nature of the business, the gang's wages are about as skewed as wages in corporate America. A foot soldier had plenty in common with a McDonald's burger flipper or a Wal-Mart shelf stocker. In fact, most of J. T.'s foot soldiers also held minimum-wage jobs in the legitimate sector to supplement their skimpy illicit earnings. The leader of another crack gang once told Venkatesh that he could easily afford to pay his foot soldiers more, but it wouldn't be prudent. "You got all these niggers below you who want your job, you dig?" he said. "So, you know, you try to take care of them, but you know, you also have to show them you the boss. You always have to get yours first, or else you really ain't no leader. If you start taking losses, they see you as weak and shit."

http://freakonomicsbook.com/thebook/ch3.html

[wuushew]

2. The former is closer to 1st degree intentional homicide

Kind of like U.S. foreign policy, "We didn't mean kill a million Iraqis".

Even though dead is dead, at least Hitler was more honest in his desire for land and resources.

[seemslikeadream]

4. Every day I wake up

[lonestarnot]

5. Like spider mites on a cedar tree.

[blindpig]

6. yep k&r

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. So 10 million kids a year die from lack of health care in capitalistic societies?

[Orwellian_Ghost]

9. No doubt

if one were to take the entire total of all children's deaths due to capitalism by all means and methods of this omicidal system of exploitation the author's original tally would be grossly understated.

[sandnsea]

10. Hunger, war, disease, pollution

9.7 million children under 5 died, globally. I don't know how many died in places like N Korea and Myanmarr, but don't forget to question why Halliburton can do business with Myanmarr but we can't figure out how to insist the countries provide basic human rights.

http://www.unicef.org/media/media_40855.html

[Selatius]

11. War is very profitable, and it also destroys resources that would otherwise be used to fight poverty

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. ... Is there no other way the world may live?"

-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, "The Chance for Peace" - a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (1953-04-16)

Yet...nobody listens.

[KillCapitalism]

14. K&R Great post!

Nice job mentioning the drug companies guys, but you missed this devil of capitalism.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Monsanto

[pork medley]

15. bump

also some posters might be interested in reading further about capitalism w/r/t engineered famines