Saying "I am a Marxist" is just as bad as saying "I am a Nazi": Change My Mind
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Honestly I'd take Nazis over Communists any day. It's not even a contest.
Nazism: Killed as many as 11 million people (Some debate. Saying it's lower than 20 million raises eyebrows and putting it below 5 million tops gets you Shoah'd. Logistically, it's probably more like 1 million, but let's take liberal estimates for the sake of argument)
Communism: Has killed at least 100 million people in famines and suppressions in major regimes and many minor regimes have killed almost ten times that by adopting communistic principles like central banking, excessive regulation, and suppression of dissent.
Even overestimating the nigsocs and underestimating communigs, we end up with a difference of two orders of magnitude.
And don't you ask about the death toll of socialism in general, oh boy.
Nazism: Kills the out-group
Communism: Kills almost indiscriminately
Well both systems make little economic sense, and both are exceedingly big-government, so they both kill the ingroup by denying voluntary trade and entrepreneurial innovation.
I think the difference is Communism has a direct and complete domineering hand over the means of production, whilst Nazism had an indirect hand over the means of production. I think Nazis allowed some market freedom but had a hand in it to make sure it "worked for the benefit of the state"
Communism: Finds a new out-group whenever they finish killing off the last one.
Nazis might have done the same thing mind you, but they weren't in power for very long.