Some say around 100 million ? Who - thecommentator.com ? They are hardly a reputable source are they ?
I have just realised that quoting/referencing third party's on internet forums as a source of authority is a completely useless practice.
What we should do really is quote our own credentials and our self interest in that over which we are passing opinion. But of course - thats not going to happen is it ?
Ooh, I can do that!
So, communism: confiscated my family's acres of land (I guess to do collectivist farming), confiscated my family's mansion to turn it into a kindergarten (making us nearly homeles), had my great-grandparents lined up against the wall and shot, persecuted by grandfather as he ran and stayed hidden around the country, hoping to get him shot too, killed off a few family members on the other side of the family in the civil war, and resulted in the remaining survivors of my family under near constant surveilance, and frequent attempts at blackmail to try to get us to spy on each other. We went from a mostly well off royal family, to a mostly dead and struggling to survive (but stil royal) family. Worse yet, everyone else we knew ended up just as poor, broken, and miserable as we were, so at least everyone was equal (equally poor, broken, and miserable).
Capitalism: allowed us to start with $300 and janitoreal jobs, and got us to the point where we own multiple rental properties, have a house with enough rare art and old collectibles that could make it a small museum, and easily over $1mil in assets, all within about 20 years. And that's only my parents.
So, even if we don't use the total numbers and just use our own credentials and self interest:
Communist death toll: ~8
Capitalist death toll: 0
Ok, your turn. How has your family or people you know been killed by capitalism?