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from the tragedy
of Mexico in the sixteenth century through to the Belgian Congo holocaust a century ago, responsibility is largely denied. All this seems just to have happened as
the result of an objective process, which nobody planned and executed and for which there was no Capitalist Manifesto.

Responsibility for communist crimes is easy to allocate: we are dealing with subjective evil, with agents who did wrong.
We can even identify the ideological sources of the crimes-totalitarian ideology,
The Communist Manifesto, Rousseau, even Plato. But when one draws attention to the millions who died as the result of capitalist globalisation... (cont)

Our blindness to the results of systemic violence is perhaps most clearly perceptible in debates about communist crimes. Responsibility for communist crimes is easy to allocate: we are dealing with subjective evil, with agents who did wrong.