"Think of all of the people who died due to capitalism!"

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This is a socialist's stock response when you point out what an absolute oppressive bloodbath that socialism always turns out to be.

The fallacy here is that mass violence is built into socialism, on account of the fact that socialism is an attempt to get rid of the inequality that comes with the positive incentives (the only alternative to negative incentives) to be smarter, harder working, and bolder than your peers that are built into capitalism. Inevitably, the first stage of socialism involves the public becoming lazy and the ambitious people fucking off. Why would anyone want to work hard when their effort is likely to be rewarded by accusations of being bourgeois and a jail cell (or a bullet)? This is one of the causes of the shortage of quality products that's characteristic of socialism, AKA mass starvation and a general plummeting of people's standards of living. The government needs to solve this, but they've crossed out the possibility of letting people make a lot of money off of selling things, so what's left? Get those arrests revving up, boys! Proper revolutionaries meet their quotas! If you're not a revolutionary, then you're an anti-revolutionary, and anti-revolutionaries get a decade in prison! If this sounds an awful lot like a society of slaves to you, then congratulations, you've identified the true face of socialism! BTW, the day where people magically decide to work hard without incentives and in spite of suspicion and resentment aimed towards success will never come, so this is what true communism looks like.

Capitalism CAN BE HANDLED in such a way that it's a bloodbath.
Socialism WILL ALWAYS BE a bloodbath, and most of the blood that comes out of socialist countries is unambiguously due to the systemic problems of socialism.