If we must throw around such accusations to stop a meaningful discussion, here's mine: I think that there's a pretty good argument to be made that Capitalism is actually the most murderous ideology since.. ever? After all, it's estimated that the yearly death toll due to systemic poverty is about 18'000'000 per year[0][1].
Now, I'm not sure at what target your dismissive statement was aimed. Communism? Socialism? The phrase "From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs" is a phrase with long tradition, with some attributing the phrase to Morelly[2], so much earlier than the 'canonical' origins of socialism or communism. And the idea goes back much further than that.
But I'm not actually of the opinion that ideologies cause or solve problems. People cause or solve problems. Ideologies simply give people the justification for their actions. Most of the time people just do their stuff and find an excuse later.
Instead we should try to find ways to apply certain ideologies where they make sense. Want to develop an emerging market? Sounds like a job for some capitalism. Need to maintain a shared infrastructure? Pretty sure that socialism will create better results.
What we can see is that especially with indispensable goods and services, capitalism does bad job as soon as it comes to shortages.
Now, I'm not sure at what target your dismissive statement was aimed. Communism? Socialism? The phrase "From each according to their abilities to each according to their needs" is a phrase with long tradition, with some attributing the phrase to Morelly[2], so much earlier than the 'canonical' origins of socialism or communism. And the idea goes back much further than that.
But I'm not actually of the opinion that ideologies cause or solve problems. People cause or solve problems. Ideologies simply give people the justification for their actions. Most of the time people just do their stuff and find an excuse later.
Instead we should try to find ways to apply certain ideologies where they make sense. Want to develop an emerging market? Sounds like a job for some capitalism. Need to maintain a shared infrastructure? Pretty sure that socialism will create better results.
What we can see is that especially with indispensable goods and services, capitalism does bad job as soon as it comes to shortages.
[0] http://jpr.sagepub.com/content/13/4/343.refs
[1] http://www.amazon.com/Violence-Reflections-Our-Deadliest-Epi...