• FaceDeer@fedia.io
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    6 months ago

    Yes, the Great Chinese Famine, in which tens of millions of people starved to death due to botched agricultural policies under a communist government. A collectivist agricultural system, in which the farms were very much not “privatized.”

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      6 months ago

      due to botched agricultural policies

      The botched agricultural policies in China were the same adopted in Western states for decades.

      A collectivist agricultural system

      Are you seriously arguing the problem with China in 1959 was a lack of landlords?