Good thing the Black Book of Communism, the only source asserting a number as high as 100 million deaths due to Communism, has been thoroughly debunked due to errors such as
Counting Nazis killed during World War II as deaths due to Communism
Counting non-births as deaths due to Communism
Counting people killed by the Nazis as deaths due to Communism
Making numbers up in order to hit the 100 million mark for the “clickbait” of it all
Historical numbers vary, but I recommend checking historians using data from after the opening of the Soviet Archives. I also wouldn’t count Pol Pot as a genuine Communist leader, and not out of any “no true Communism” nonsense, he legitimately denounced Marxism and had a form of “Communism” utterly divorced from the Marxist canon.
One thing to keep in mind is that extremely frequently, deaths due to natural forces like drought-induced famine or otherwise are counted as “excess” deaths, which is a dishonest framing. No genuine Marxist would say there were no excess deaths in Socialist states, such would be taking an idealist analysis that infantilizes the genuine revolutionary struggles faced internally and externally by the Proletariat.
Good thing the Black Book of Communism, the only source asserting a number as high as 100 million deaths due to Communism, has been thoroughly debunked due to errors such as
So how many millions after the debunk we have to write down by leaders like Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot and others?
Historical numbers vary, but I recommend checking historians using data from after the opening of the Soviet Archives. I also wouldn’t count Pol Pot as a genuine Communist leader, and not out of any “no true Communism” nonsense, he legitimately denounced Marxism and had a form of “Communism” utterly divorced from the Marxist canon.
One thing to keep in mind is that extremely frequently, deaths due to natural forces like drought-induced famine or otherwise are counted as “excess” deaths, which is a dishonest framing. No genuine Marxist would say there were no excess deaths in Socialist states, such would be taking an idealist analysis that infantilizes the genuine revolutionary struggles faced internally and externally by the Proletariat.