The Coffee Marxist


Black Book of Capitalism

Keep in mind this does not include stats from the 1,000,000 or so killed and the millions of others displaced in the current US invasion of Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.

  • Slavery of blacks in the 17th and 18th centuries: 10,000,000
  • Liquidation of the Indians of America from 1500 to 1860: 70,000,000
  • Crimean War: 252,000
  • (Fr and GB counter Russia) in 1854:
    Russians: 100,000
    French: 93,000
    English: 22,000
    Tricks: 35,000
    Piedmontese: 2,000
  • American Civil War 1860-1865: 617,000
  • War of 1870 (France against Germans): 220,000
  • Crushing of the Commune of Paris in 1871: 20,000
  • Colonization of Algeria by the French in 1840: 10,000
  • Colonization of Africa by the French in the 19th century: 112,000
  • Colonization of Congo by the Belgians in the 19th century: 1,000,000
  • War the United States – Spain in 1898: 100,000
  • War of Boers in South Africa in 1900: 57,000
    Boers: 35,000
    English: 22,000
  • War 1914-1918: 10,000,000
  • War of Spain 1936-1939: 410,000
  • War 1939-1945: 50,000,000
  • Repression of the army in Madagascar in 1948: 80,000
  • War of Algeria: 380 000
    Algerians: 350,000
    French: 30,000
  • Vietnam War: 3,107,000
    • Vietminh: 500,000
      Fr: 100,000
      Civil: 1,000,000
    • Vietcong: 750,000
      Americans: 57,000
      Southerners: 200,000
      Civil: 500,000
  • Anti-communist repression in Indonesia in 1965: 500,000
  • Repression of May 1968 in France: 4
  • Massacre of students in Mexico City avt J.O. of 1968: 400
  • War of Biafra 1966-1969: 1,000,000
  • Pinochet’s Dictatorship in Chile 1973-1990: 3,167
  • Dictatorship in Argentina 1976-1982: 30,000
  • Escadrond: 50,000
  • Guatemala and Salvador 1975 – 2,000
  • War of the Falklands: 1,005
    England-Argentina in 1982
  • Industrial accident in Bhopal (India) in 1984: 2,900
  • War of the Gulf in 1991: 160,022
    • Iraqi: 160,000
    • Allies: 22

Total: 147,387,051