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Capitalism is dominant and longer used than Communism. The total amount of deaths is naturally higher. It doesn't tell anything about the actual amount of deaths communism could have, if it is active in the same capacity and amount of time, this plot would be more interesting.
And just to make things clear, I am not taking a position for any of the two. I just think this argument is not representative.
Currently 18.75% of the world population lives in a communist country. (China, Vietnam, The DPRK, Laos, and Cuba.)
Shall we compare how many people have died to preventable causes in these countries in the last 10 years to the United States alone? Which has a vastly smaller populaton? Take covid for example.
China: 13,524 confirmed COVID deaths.
Vietnam: 43,383 confirmed COVID deaths.
DPRK: 0 reported confirmed COVID deaths (no official reporting to WHO).
Laos: 4,327 confirmed COVID deaths.
Cuba: 11,777 confirmed COVID deaths.
United States: 1,191,000 confirmed COVID deaths. (Accusations of underreporting and categorizing them as "pneumonia" in some states to improve numbers.)
It's not even fucking close. The US by comparison is around 4% of the world population. So even with 6x more people to protect, much less funds and resources to do so, and a geographic disadvantage (The US has 2 oceans next to it to make controlling movement easier), the communist nations protected their people, and the US let hundreds of thousands of its own people die. Simply because maintaining commerce and profit margins was more important than protecting its people.
They'll ignore this and just claim that the deaths were covered up.
Probably. But maybe someone will see it who has an open mind and didn't know this.