Wow. The "critics" defend the indefensible and do everything possible to cover up evil's tracks. No wonder we are doomed to repeat history.
I have one sister who, together with her husband, went through Communist hell to adopt a child who was in a Ukranian orphanage. She experienced the labyrinth first hand, yet is so anti-capitalist and pro-union that I imagine she would agree with the comments of one of the more well-known (Marxist) critics of the book.
"Critics have argued that capitalist countries could be held responsible for a similar number of deaths. Noam Chomsky, for example, writes that Amartya Sen in the early 1980s estimated the excess of mortality in India over China due to the latter's "relatively equitable distribution of medical resources" at close to 4 million a year. Chomsky therefore argues that, "suppos[ing] we now apply the methodology of the Black Book and its reviewers" to India, "the democratic capitalist 'experiment' has caused more deaths than in the entire history of ... Communism everywhere since 1917: over 100 million deaths by 1979, and tens of millions more since, in India alone."[17]"
thx for pointing it out.