That comes to about one hundred million people in India alone from 1947 to 1980. But we dont call that a crime of democratic capitalism. If we were to carry out that calculation throughout the world I wont even talk about it. But Sen is correct; theyre not intended, just like the Chinese famine wasnt intended. But they are ideological and institutional crimes, and capitalist democracy and its advocates are responsible for them, in whatever sense supporters of so-called Communism are responsible for the Chinese famine. We dont have the entire responsibility, but certainly a large part of it

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