So, I've been reading "Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World" by Mike Davis. And as he recounts famine after famine, each of which claimed millions of lives, I started thinking to myself: even granting the ludicrous assumptions of the anti-communists with the "Victims of Communism" webpage (and proposed memorial or something?), the victims of capitalism easily outnumber them. And I wasn't alone. Here, the author recounts how British colonial policy was responsible for 100 million excess premature deaths in India alone, over the course of a half century. #Capitalism #Colonialism #Communism #VictimsOfCommunism #VictimsOfCapitalism <https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians> #history
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@froztbyte @31337 lol
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@Chip_Unicorn @bookstodon I am gonna boost this with the caveat that although Ferret Steinmetz is a good writer, he has a bad reputation for overt sexism and harassment. It's a damn shame. I really enjoyed 'The Sol Majestic.'
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five: Ursula Le Guin Kim Stanley Robinson Octavia Butler N. K. Jemisin Becky Chambers Iain M. Banks Martha Wells M. R. Carey Lois McMaster Bujold Vonda McIntyre [\#scifi](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/scifi) [#ScienceFiction](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScienceFiction) [#SFF](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SFF) [#books](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/books) [\#10Authors5BooksEach](https://eldritch.cafe/tags/10Authors5BooksEach) [@bookstodon](https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon)
