coercive powers, powers that, under a capitalist system, would instead be granted by a capitalist class, which Friedman found preferable. In his campaign against Labour candidate Clement Attlee in the 1945 general election, Winston Churchill claimed that socialism requires totalitarian methods, including a political police, in order to achieve its goals. Mass killings Many commentators on the political right point to the mass killings under communist regimes, claiming them as an indictment of socialism. The Black Book of Communism has been one of the most elaborate academic works to make this point. Counter-criticism Defenders of socialism state that the mass killings under communist regimes were aberrations caused by specific authoritarian regimes, and not caused by socialism itself, and point to mass deaths in wars that they claim were caused by capitalism and anti-communism as a counterpoint to those killings. Nathan J. Robinson, editor-in-chief of the left-wing progressive Current Affairs magazine, has defended socialism from criticism, arguing that socialism means "human beings should care about one another and share their resources fairly in a way that ensures nobody is deprived". See also Anti-capitalism Anti-communism Criticism of capitalism Criticism of communist party rule Criticism of Marxism Criticism of social democracy Economic calculation problem Economic efficiency Economic equilibrium The Fatal Conceit McCarthyism Mixed economy Socialist calculation debate Soviet-type economic planning Tragedy of the commons References Further reading Anti-communism Macroeconomic problems Socialism