Nuck2407
Capitalisms history begins long before the idea of socialism was conceived and I see so many arguments being made on the point that 20th century socialism was heinous and killed so many people yada yada yada and I'm going to put this down to recency bias.
The story of capitalism begins in Venice in the 12th or 13th century, but not so important for the point I'm making, for that we start in the late 15th century, this is where we see the foundation of capitalism begin.
Europe has taken ideas from Venice and mercantilism has begun, exploration, expansion, exploitation. The first stop is going to be 1492, this is the year where history divides two types of slavery, ancient, like the shit you read in the Bible which while still disgusting was tame compared to what happens next. Modern slavery is a whole different beast, it is barbaric in comparison and the key defining factor is that this is when slavery shifted towards profit from labor. European capitalism and modern slavery will be intwined for the next 400 years.
It's also the year our first superpower comes into being, the Spanish empire ventured out and invaded the Americas, killing tens of millions in the process, the Americas were of particular use to them as they extracted fortunes of wealth from the lands, rare metals like gold and silver were abundant and the local populations were enslaved in order to ship them back to Spain. The sheer scale of bloodshed is represented by one figure, 90% of the population of the Americas was wiped out by the Spanish in the pursuit of profit. It is to this day the largest mortality event to global population in history. But as all empires do (take notes USA) it begins to fail.
However there are plenty of other Europeans who are ready to join the party, the British, France, Portugal the Dutch, Europe sees the stunning wealth and embark on a mission to conquer the globe. Our next destination is Asia where we see the invasions of India, wars with China and the colonization and exploitation of the entire region. The culmination of this is the British killing 100 million Indians between 1880 and 1920 and the largest wealth transfer in human history. That more than any death toll we attribute to socialism, just in India over 40/400 years of European imperialism.

资本主义的历史远在社会主义概念形成之前就开始了。我看到很多人总抓着20世纪社会主义有多可怕、害死多少人这类说辞叨叨个没完，我觉得这纯粹是近因偏见作祟。
资本主义的故事要从12或13世纪的威尼斯说起，不过这对我要说的重点不太重要，我们直接从15世纪末开始——这才是资本主义真正奠基的时候。
欧洲吸收了威尼斯的理念，重商主义兴起，探索、扩张、剥削接踵而至。第一站来到1492年，这一年划分了两种奴隶制：古代奴隶制（就像圣经里记载的那种，虽然恶心但跟后来的相比还算温和）和现代奴隶制——这完全是另一种野兽，相比之下更加野蛮，关键区别在于奴隶制从此转向了榨取劳动利润。此后四百年，欧洲资本主义与现代奴隶制始终纠缠不清。
也正是这一年，首个超级大国西班牙帝国诞生。他们远征美洲，过程中屠戮数千万人。美洲对他们特别有用，能从这片土地榨取巨额财富——金银等贵金属储量丰富，原住民被奴役着将财富运回西班牙。这场血腥屠杀的规模用一个数字就能体现：90%的美洲人口在西班牙追逐利润的过程中灭绝。这至今仍是人类历史上最大规模的全球人口灭绝事件。但正如所有帝国的命运（美国记笔记），西班牙开始衰落了。
不过其他欧洲国家早就迫不及待要加入这场盛宴：英国、法国、葡萄牙、荷兰...欧洲目睹惊人财富后，开启了征服全球的征程。下一站是亚洲，我们目睹了对印度的入侵、与中国的战争，以及整个地区的殖民剥削。其中最残酷的，是1880至1920年间英国屠戮了一亿印度人，以及人类历史上最大规模的财富转移。光是印度这四十年/四百年欧洲帝国主义造成的死亡，就远超我们归咎于社会主义的任何死亡数据。

Meanwhile expansion into Africa and the expansion of the slave trade all fueled by the desire for wealth generating labor. Massacres, enslavement, GENOCIDE again all fueled by the desire for profit, shipped all over the world to work in conditions that make the gulags look like a vacation home.
It's a pattern that continues into Australia, an entire continent stolen, the indigenous population enslaved, attempted GENOCIDE, kids being stolen from their parents, again all in the pursuit of wealth and profit.
Hundreds of millions of people have been killed, enslaved, and some of human kinds worst acts all committed as a result of capitalism.
We all like to think that slavery came to an end because we realized the disgusting nature of what was happening, however the reality is the British pushed abolition so hard in to destabilize other European economies, it had a significant advantage from the individual revolution and saw the abolition to be disruptive to their competitors especially the French and especially the French in Hati. And as I've mentioned above even once that has occurred the British still kill more Indians than any socialist dictator after abolition occurs.
Marx starts writing Das Kapital in a world here real slavery was still a common practice for capitalism and its release is barley beat out by abolition in the US.
To view socialism through the lense of devestating death tolls when capitalism was built on dead indigenous populations and slavery, slavery so bad that we actually have to distinguish it from other forms of slavery, is pure ignorance. Capitalism spread through every continent on earth in blood, there is no moral high ground you can pretend to hold here, the death tolls are far heavier and the treatment far worse than anything that has occurred under socialist regimes (not that it excuses their behavior).

与此同时，向非洲扩张和奴隶贸易的扩大，全都源于对能带来财富的劳动力的渴望。大屠杀、奴役、种族灭绝，同样都是为了追逐利润。奴隶被运往世界各地，在比古拉格集中营还恶劣多的环境里劳作。
这种模式延续到澳大利亚：整片大陆被窃取，原住民遭奴役，实施种族灭绝，儿童被从父母身边夺走，一切依旧为了追逐财富和利润。
数亿人因此丧生、遭受奴役，人类最恶劣的行径许多都是资本主义的产物。
我们都一厢情愿地认为奴隶制终结是因为人们认识到其丑恶本质，但现实是英国极力推动废奴是为了破坏其他欧洲经济体。英国凭借工业革命获得巨大优势，认为废奴能打击竞争对手，特别是法国，尤其是海地的法国势力。正如前文所述，即便废奴之后，英国屠杀的印度人仍超过任何社会主义独裁者。
马克思开始撰写《资本论》时，真实的奴隶制在资本主义世界仍很普遍，该著作出版时间仅比美国废奴早一点点。
在资本主义建立在原住民尸骨和奴隶制（这种奴隶制恶劣到我们必须将其与其他形式区分开来）之上的前提下，用死亡人数来批判社会主义纯粹是无知。资本主义踏着鲜血蔓延到地球每个大洲，装什么道德高尚？资本主义造成的死亡人数远远更多，手段远比社会主义政权下的任何行为更残忍（当然这不是为他们的行为开脱）。