> muckraking to clutter someone's obituary notice Edited to add: In theory, one might think there ought to be a difference between an obituary and a encycloped

> muckraking to clutter someone's obituary notice Edited to add: In theory, one might think there ought to be a difference between an obituary and a encyclopedia entry. This is more shrine to a person as opposed to a less propagandist, more objective account. The implications of the CCP line, the Wikipedia article, and the tone here is that better rice was what was needed to avoid famine. The reality is with property rights, proper prices, without central planning, there would not have been a famine. Maybe he is as great as people claim ... Or, maybe his reputation is manufactured _ex post facto_ to diminish the role of the ideology in causing the disaster. As for saving people from hunger elsewhere, people in the Sudan or Yemen or Ethiopia have not been dying because they planted the inferior crop.