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No. The philosophy of appropriating capital has predictably catastrophic results for capital-holders, however small. Perhaps Marx can't be blamed for that by some lights, but I think reading his exhortations in the Communist Manifesto makes it clear that he was enthusiastic about appropriation. Living conditions wind up terrible in the aftermath of this central policy choice, predictably and universally. In any case, the claim above is about Marxism, not Marx personally; surely one man can't be held responsible for various implementations of a poorly thought-out ideology from a century earlier.
In stark contrast, capitalist societies have thrived and consistently improved the living standards of people living with that set of rules. If you want to blame capitalism for living conditions in, say, West Virginia coal-mining company towns, I will agree that capitalism is responsible for that intolerable set of conditions. This will not add up to anything like the crimes encouraged by communism.
Certainly. Appropriation, however, doesn't necessarily translate into murder. Likewise, capitalism doesn't require the deaths it caused, but if we're talking about deaths under a system's means of economic production, then I don't see a way in which you count, for example, the Holodomor as a death under Marxism but exclude the Great Bengal Famine of 1770 from the capitalist side.
My point is that you have to be consistent.
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