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Here's the main difference:
"Yes that happened, and it was bad. We shouldn't repeat those mistakes, though we do not have to abandon capitalism entirely."
It's a little different than "nuh uh, real capitalism has never been tried that was imperialism/colonialism. Real capitalism is only when everything is perfect forever under free market capitalism so if anything bad happens it was never real."
Actually I bring this up because when talking about famines people love to downplay the strife caused by capitalists maximizing profit and socializing loses.
Ironically your last paragraph is a pretty accurate paraphrasing of the usual dialogue around capitalisms faults.