![]() The incorporation of the great subsistence peasantries of South and East Asia was absolutely cataclysmic. Jacobin’s Meagan Day talked with Davis about how the historical crimes of capitalism differ from those of socialism, and how to talk about the differences between them in an era of ever-more savage capitalism - as well as new openings for the socialist left. ![]() If famines are the yardstick we’re using to measure the suitability of a global economic system, then capitalists have a lot to answer for. Capitalism has an enormous death toll of its own. Mike Davis’s book Late Victorian Holocausts complicates that story significantly. Horrifying episodes like the Great Chinese Famine and the Soviet famine under Stalin are brandished as proof that socialism can never work and is too dangerous to attempt, so we’re better off with capitalism. ![]() For decades, one of the most popular methods of undermining socialists has been an appeal to the atrocities that occurred in Stalin’s Russia and Mao’s China. Not only did we gain an extraordinarily wide hearing for our political ideas, but we also spooked our ideological opponents, and as a result got a good look at their rhetorical arsenal. This summer’s electoral wave gave the US socialist left a much larger audience than we’re used to. ![]()
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