If you apply your logic consistently, capitalist empires, monarchies, nationalist states, and colonial systems all produced death tolls on the same scale or larger. The quote is about fear of the idea, not a scoreboard of state atrocities.
There isn’t a single “communism death toll” or “capitalism death toll.” Historians measure deaths by specific regimes, leaders, wars, and famines — not by abstract ideologies.
But just for the sake of FACTS:
Stalin’s USSR — estimates vary widely, ~6–9 million from famine, purges, gulags, deportations.
Mao’s China — Great Leap Forward famine estimates ~15–45 million; Cultural Revolution ~1–2 million.
Colonialism under capitalist empires — famines, forced labor, and wars across India, Africa, and the Americas; estimates often exceed 50–60 million cumulatively. World Wars (capitalist nation-states) — ~70–85 million combined.
Atlantic slave trade (capitalist enterprise) — ~12–20 million deaths including transit and capture.Late‑19th/early‑20th famines under British rule in India — ~12–30 million
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