Lysenkoism killed approximately 30-40 million Chinese via completely avoidable starvation during the ‘Great Leap Forward’. Far more than Hitler killed (intentionally) through extermination.
And anyone with half a brain saw it was insanity - which is why those who spoke up got shot or sent to the Gulag. Because the ideology was fundamentally one that no one was able to question safely.
So they’re both mass murdering genocidal ideologies.
> the ideology was fundamentally one that no one was able to question safely.
so according to you there are only 2 ideologies in the world: dictatorship and non-dictatorship. I guess simplification is always a great start for an intellectual conversation. By saying that, you essentially dismissed the entire premise of this discussion, because fascism and communism are the same thing I guess, so what are we even talking about?
Also if you're going to compare body counts, then do it right
- First of all, all communist statistics are unreliable estimation, they didn't exactly brag about that to the outside world, do they.
- Second of all, communism was deployed to a much larger population, during a longer time frame, unlike fascism.
Seems like you're arguing communism is worse because it's not bad enough to die early, so it lasted and did more damage, which is a ridiculous argument.
And anyone with half a brain saw it was insanity - which is why those who spoke up got shot or sent to the Gulag. Because the ideology was fundamentally one that no one was able to question safely.
So they’re both mass murdering genocidal ideologies.