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| − | '''Socialist holocaust denial''' is the act of denying the [[democide]] of at least 94 million people by [[Marxist]] | + | '''Socialist holocaust denial''' is the act of denying the [[democide]] of at least 94 million people by [[Marxist]]s in the 20th century.<ref>https://thefederalist.com/2017/04/24/left-socialism-denial-holocaust-denial/</ref> Socialism deniers make one or more of the following false statements: |
*That [[Socialism]] is [[democracy|democratic]] and espouses [[equality]] for the betterment of the human condition. | *That [[Socialism]] is [[democracy|democratic]] and espouses [[equality]] for the betterment of the human condition. | ||
Revision as of 23:42, June 21, 2019
Socialist holocaust denial is the act of denying the democide of at least 94 million people by Marxists in the 20th century.[1] Socialism deniers make one or more of the following false statements:
- That Socialism is democratic and espouses equality for the betterment of the human condition.
- That Marxist ideology is not responsible for the mass extermination of 94 million people.
- That true genuine socialism has never really been tried by any government claiming to be socialist.
Additional reading
- Death by Government, By R.J. Rummel, New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
- Werth, Nicolas; Panné, Jean-Louis; Paczkowski, Andrzej; Bartosek, Karel; Margolin, Jean-Louis (October 1999), Courtois, Stéphane, ed., The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, Harvard University Press.