Which has killed more people free market capitalism or socialism?

Answer 1

Free market capitalism, by far.

Answer 2

Thugs on both sides of the ldealogical isle. Still, Stalin killed around 10 million, and Hitler around 6 million, and then throw in Pinochet, and Castro thousands more. Not about being a person that belive the govemrent should help people, or people should not depend on the goverment. Therefore, the question is not about left and right in politcal thinking its about thuggery and freedom.
Free Markets in the end trickle benefits to the working class that means they can own dvd players, computers, decent car even if the richest person wages is 100 times more. Then with social welfare state with free market you get less materalistic starndard of living, but you get free healthcare, free education, but you pay for that freedom of services with high taxes. For a high standard of living like the west you need the free market no matter what.

Answer 3

Depends what you mean by free-market and by socialism. The US is currently NOT a true free market because of subsidies to oil, gas, pharmaceuticals, meat and dairy. Likewise, the Soviet Union wasn't truly a marxist nation.

But if you ask me, the government kills off more people than the market.

RON PAUL 2008!

Answer 4

What is it exactly that you would like to ask?

Maybe which of the two systems produced more injustices and damages to the population?

Though socialism used to be extremely effective (in negative sense) it lasted very limited period of time whereas free market capitalism just keeps on going...thus...the final result is yet to be seen.

Answer 5

The free market has never killed anyone to remain in power, so despite the millions dead on record from socialist regimes, even if socialism only killed one, it is far greater than capitalism.

Answer 6

Get rich quick schemes in the capitalist business world, (buyouts, IPOs, conglomerates, acquisitions, mergers, and the stock market), do not actually work. Remaining solvent does not actually exist within false economics capitalism.

Profit existing in the capitalist business world, or millionaires existing within capitalism, is pathological deception committed by the 21 organizations spying on the public with plain clothes agents, (with covert fake names and fake backgrounds).

Actual economics involves the persons paying the monthly business loan payments of companies voting at work in order to control the property they are paying for.

Capitalism is the psychology of imaginary parents, false economics, and the criminal deception of employees that are paying the bills (including the stocks and bonds, or shares) of companies.

Answer 7

Totalitarianism waving the flag of socialism has killed a lot of people but I deny stalinism was socialist kinda like Bush calls himself a conservative but you don't agree.
"Once Stalin had defeated Trotsky's Left Opposition, he turned on all his opponents, including his allies on the Right. The victory of the apparatus was to culminate in the infamous Moscow Trials of 1936-38 where the 'Old Bolsheviks', including Trotsky, who led the October Revolution, were accused of counter-revolutionary activity, sabotage, murder, and collaboration with fascism.
Most of the accused were subsequently broken by the secret police, the NKVD, forced to give to give false confessions about themselves and others, and then shot. By 1940, out of the members of Lenin's Central Committee of 1917, only Stalin remained. Trotsky himself was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in August 1940.
The Great Purge and Terror were launched by Stalin not because he was insane. On the contrary, it was a conscious, well-prepared course of action to safe-guard the rule of the bureaucracy. Stalin arrived at the decision to destroy the 'Old Bolsheviks' not later than the summer of 1934, and then began to prepare his operation - beginning with the murder of Kirov in December of that year.
Trotsky explained Stalin's actions:
'It is time, my listeners, it is high time, to recognise, finally, that a new aristocracy has been formed in the Soviet Union. The October Revolution proceeded under the banner of equality. The bureaucracy is the embodiment of monstrous inequality. The revolution destroyed the nobility. The bureaucracy creates a new gentry. The revolution destroyed titles and decorations. The new aristocracy produces marshals and generals. The new aristocracy absorbs an enormous part of the national income. Its position before the people is deceitful and false. Its leaders are forced to hide the reality, to deceive the masses, to cloak themselves, calling black white. The whole policy of the new aristocracy is a frame-up.'
Stalin betrayed socialism.
http://www.trotsky.net/trotsky_year/moscow_trials.html
Unregulated capitalism on the other hand kills people and still does today.When profit comes before people humanity is lost.
Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day.
The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world’s countries) is less than the wealth of the world’s three richest people combined.
Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names.
Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn’t happen.
1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world). 640 million live without adequate shelter, 400 million have no access to safe water, 270 million have no access to health services. 10.6 million died in 2003 before they reached the age of 5 (or roughly 29,000 children per day).
Poverty is the state for the majority of the world’s people and nations. Why is this? Is it enough to blame poor people for their own predicament? Have they been lazy, made poor decisions, and been solely responsible for their plight? What about their government? Have they pursued policies that actually harm successful development? Such causes of poverty and inequality are no doubt real. But often less discussed are deeper and more global causes of poverty.

Behind the increasing interconnectedness promised by globalization, are global decisions, policies, and practices. These are typically influenced, driven, or formulated by the rich and powerful. These can be leaders of rich countries or other global actors such as multinational corporations, institutions, and influential people.

In the face of such enormous external influence, the governments of poor nations and their people are often powerless. As a result, in the global context, a few get wealthy while the majority struggle.

Answer 8

If you include communisms in socialism then it is hands down socialism. It is silly to even compare the two as if capitalism kills people.

Answer 9

Neither has killed anyone.

Militant extremism, of ANY kind, kills people. Militant fascism or militant socialism, militant religion or militant atheism, all have caused mass death.

Answer 10

hmmm...marxist leninist idealogy about a hundred million people dead...

sorry, I don't have the facts on free market capitalist dead.