Richard Wolff counters libertarian arguments against socialism

"Capitalism has been the dominant system for the last 150-200 years, pretty much around the world. What's its record in terms of the killing of people out of capitalist competition, capitalist enmity, inside countries [and] across countries? Well, it's way in excess of anything that socialists could claim. Let's start with World WarsI & II. I mean, conservatively those killed 50 to 100 million people, somewhere already in a different league. And those were wars that came out of competition among capitalist countries like Germany, England, the United States, Japan, and so on. So, really are we gonna go down that road?"
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