The US & EU crimes – part one
Neoliberal idiots and other capitalist morons always and everywhere make ideological discussions and when they don’t have any argument against communism, they speak about crimes done by communists. And indeed, it is much easier to find information about numbers of people killed by Stallin than by USA/EU. First, Stallin did it before 80 years when kings in the west killed people without mercy. Beside it, numbers of killed people is different at different sources. So, documented death caused by Stallin are 3 million people but right wing sources (who hate communists) go to the 60 millions. Beside it, USA/EU sanctions against Iraq brought 1.5 million people to death and half of it were children, how many people have information about it? In any case, it is very stupid to misuse victims for ideological discussion today about capitalism and communism, it doesn’t matter who killed more, the both sides killed crowd of people. But because all people know what communists did, and because of harder situation to find the truth about western crimes, I decided to research such topic and to publish information. I don’t think it is good if people forget all victims of colonialism and present occupations of energy countries (Iraq, Libya, etc) which is done by their western governments. Instead to make conflicts who killed more people, it is better that people get information and to protest against their governments in capitalist and in communist countries. Crimes are done even now during we read or write something. So, stand up and protest against war if you are really against mass murders. Is it not contradiction that people hate criminals who break in one house or kill one person while they give a vote for their government which killed crowd of people? That’s why government control medias and education, medias and schools help to the government to control members of society from childhood.
But let’s go. Capitalism started in different countries in different periods, beginning of capitalism is moment of so called bourgeois revolutions (from 16-19 century), period of fight of bankers and traders against feuds and kings. Of course, bankers had to promise a lot of things to the poor to stand up and fight against feuds and kings but later they cheated poor people. Logically, if first revolution started in 16 century, it means that bourgeois is created much earlier and they organized themselves during the time. Therefore, crimes of bourgeois belong to capitalist crimes and I can include here crimes done by western countries from the end of 15 century. (click link below to read more)
In the time of feudalism happened mass murder of indigenous people (Indians) in America after dirty Columbus discovered it. As I said, problem is always different sources give different numbers, some say there were 10 million Indians and some say there were 100 million. Almost all of them are massacred, in the beginning of 19 century there were just 237 000 Indians and in the end of this century about 15 000. One hard core band Discharge has even song named John Wayne was a Nazi, it means mass murder of Indians is represented as something heroic and good by American media and entertainment industry and therefore this political hard core band sing something different: the truth. People say that winners of war write history and they hide their crimes or they glorify their crimes as something good. Therefore it is hard now to find info about crimes done by capitalist countries, they don’t want to publish the truth. Amnesty International push international community to investigate crimes of NATO in Libya but they don’t want to do it. Interesting thing with indigenous people in America was that they didn’t have capitalism, they didn’t have trade system, neither buying nor selling, and relied exclusively on their natural environment for maintenance. They were extremely generous with their possessions and by the same token covet the possessions of their friends and expect the same degree of liberality…To describe shortly crime against Indians I will make several quotes (Howard Zinn book “A People’s History of the United States“):
The Indians, Columbus reported, “are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it. When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone….” He concluded his report by asking for a little help from their Majesties, and in return he would bring them from his next voyage “as much gold as they need … and as many slaves as they ask.” Because of Columbus’s exaggerated report and promises, his second expedition was given seventeen ships and more than twelve hundred men. The aim was clear: slaves and gold. But too many of the slaves died in captivity, and so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had invested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.
In fight with Arawaks, when the Spaniards took prisoners they hanged them or burned them to death. Among the Arawaks, mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards. In two years, through murder, mutilation, or suicide, half of the 250,000 Indians on Haiti were dead. When it became clear that there was no gold left, the Indians were taken as slave labor. By the year 1515, there were perhaps fifty thousand Indians left. By 1550, there were five hundred. A report of the year 1650 shows none of the original Arawaks or their descendants left on the island.
Las Casas says, in Cuba 7000 children died in three months. Husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk. When he arrived on Hispaniola in 1508, Las Casas says, “there were 60,000 people living on this island, including the Indians; so that from 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery, and the mines. Who in future generations will believe this? I myself writing it as a knowledgeable eyewitness can hardly believe it….”
Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard historian, tells about the enslavement and the killing: “The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide.”
American Holocaust: D. Stannard (Oxford Press, 1992) – “over 100 million killed” “[Christopher] Columbus personally murdered half a million Natives”. By far the biggest killers though were smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever, all imported by the Europeans. The European and white American destruction of the native peoples of the Americas was the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. Stannard contends that the perpetrators of the American Holocaust drew on the same ideological wellspring as did the later architects of the Nazi Holocaust. It is an ideology that remains dangerously alive today, he adds, and one that in recent years has surfaced in American justifications for large-scale military intervention in Southeast Asia and the Middle East.
A Century of Dishonor, 1881, by Helen Hunt Jackson. This book describes the history and suffering of seven tribes: the Cheyennes, Cherokees, Delawares, Nez Perces, Poncas, Sioux, and Winnebagos.
Here is the map of the native tribes.
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