<...On the genocide issue, I have long wondered if our treatment of native Americans didn't qualify as genocide. I remain undecided.
I would tend to say yes. There were too many situations where the elimination of the Indians was not just a bunch of separate groups of settlers taking land on their own initiative, but was an active and official American government policy, although more damage was probably done through the slow murder of bureaucracy, broken treaties, and loss of hope and land than was done through active massacre.
One could weasel out of this by pointing out that this was last century, but it still needs to be remembered.
Obviously, there were many cases of genocide throughout history that had nothing to do with Marxism or formal socialism, although one could make a good case for laying many of them at the feet of the more general term "collectivism."
My point was to show the bloody record of Marxism in our time in particular.
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