So now we say "genocide". And in this century, I suspect meaning the last century. Understandable error, if an error.

We throw away the capitalist genocides of previous centuries, they don't count even though it was capitalism, private ownership, the expropriation of lands for private ownership, which was the economic impetus to the genocide?

And we limit it to "genocide". Anthing short of "genocide" doesn't count, somehow.

So, we've pretty well limited ourselves to Germany, and the Jews. Kinda unfair, and we have to leave out Africa, which has genocides and basically capitalistic systems. At least most folks make their living in small, very small privately owned and run businesses.

(I'm sure you'd like to include Stalin's atrocities, too, but I don't know if they were genocide. And they weren't communist atrocities, they were a dictatorships atrocities.

How much of the German atrocities were enabled and driven by political considerations, and how much by a socialist economy? When Hitler railed against the Jews, was he speaking as a politician, or an economist. He did use an economic excuse, to free the world from the financial stranglehold of Jewish banks, but it was "Jewish" he was after, not necessarily banks and not the threat to the structure of socialism that was the problem.

Sorry. It's not the economic system, it's the political structure trying to hold onto or consolidate political power that enables those crimes against humanity.

Arf