"Marxist/Communist governments were responsible for the murder of more than 100,000,000 people in the 20th Century."
The track records of non-Marxist governments - USA, Chile (take your pick with most South American counties), Germany, Greece, the dying echoes of the British Empire, Israel.... (how far do you want to go), equalled that number and more.
Japanese people are still dying as a result of 2 atom bombs being dropped on industrial towns 60 odd years ago, and will be for generations to come.
Those countries that have 'shaken off the Marxist yoke' can hardly be said to have mended their ways - former Yugoslavia, Russia.
The record of pre-Castro Cuba, "America's open sewer", is hardly an enviable one.
It is often forgotten that Tolstoy was writing about the "Marxist Gulags!" some time in the middle of the 19th century.
Human rights abuses seem not to be respecters of political boundaries. Not trying to draw a compare, I don't hold a torch for any of them - just pointing out the realities of the situation.
The vast majority of the countries that called themselves "Marxist" wouldn't know what Marxism was if they were belted over the head with a copy of 'Anti-Duhring' anyway - think on't.
Jim Carroll