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>Care to give examples? Sure. Soviet Famine of 1921 (5 million). Soviet Famine of 1932-33 (7-10 million minimum, perhaps many more). Soviet Famine of 1947 (1 m
by Turing_Machine 8y ago
>Care to give examples?
Sure. Soviet Famine of 1921 (5 million). Soviet Famine of 1932-33 (7-10 million minimum, perhaps many more). Soviet Famine of 1947 (1 million or so). Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 (15-43 million). Cambodian Famine of 1974-79 (2 million). Ethiopian Famine of 1984-85 (400,000). North Korean Famine of 1996 (3.5 million).
Number of famines in the capitalist west over the same time period: zero.
Note that I'm not counting food shortages caused by active or recent warfare in either case, thus neither the German "Hunger Winter" of 1946-47 (several hundred thousand) nor the Siege of Leningrad Famine of 1941-44 (about a million) are included.
> And where is a place you would define as Marxist in 2018?
Venezuela will do until something closer comes along. And sure enough, they're on the brink of famine.
- lostlogin 8y agoThe op said ‘dying’ and I was referring to the use of the current tense.
- andybak 8y ago> Note that I'm not counting food shortages caused by active or recent warfare in either case, Surely the Ethiopian famine and the Cambodian famine could be disregarded if you applied this rule consistently. And the Bengal famine is arguably something caused by a Western democracy that wasn't directly a result of the wartime conditions.
- lostlogin 8y agoAttributing starvation in Leningrad and Eastern Germany to Marxism is a little odd too.
- narrator 8y agoYou forgot the Great Bengali famine of 1943 (3 million) under British rule in India. The British had the habit of ducking responsibility for all the famines that killed millions in India under their rule by blaming it on overpopulation. That there were no major famines after Indian independence is conveniently ignored.