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Yeah, that’s what happens when you try to undo 200 years of colonial rule. It’s actually a surprisingly low number as a percentage of population when compared t
by wayoutthere 5y ago
Yeah, that’s what happens when you try to undo 200 years of colonial rule. It’s actually a surprisingly low number as a percentage of population when compared to Russia or Eastern Europe.
- logicchains 5y agoThat's ridiculous. Most of the deaths were due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward; how could any part of that be justified as "undoing 200 years of colonial rule"? That wasn't even a justification used by the Commmunist Party at the time.
- wayoutthere 5y agoThere’s no playbook for undoing colonial rule at mass scale. Said colonial rule prevented China from participating in the industrial revolution, so converting an agrarian economy to an industrial one is in fact undoing colonial rule. So yeah, they made mistakes and a lot of people died. I’m not going to glorify Mao but you can’t argue with results. The Great Leap Forward largely succeeded, they just realized it needed to be rolled out at a smaller scale over a longer period of time.
- logicchains 5y agoBy what metric did it succeed? China's GDP per capita is still around a quarter of comparable countries like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.
- janeroe 5y agoWell, when the youth wing of Lumumbians started practicing a nutritionary democracy (that is, murdered and had a nurse from the West for dinner) this was exactly the justification used by the socialists. "They are undoing the colonial rule", -- they said. That's even more ridiculous and yet they find this theory convincing. So, I don't think it can be helped.
- fallingknife 5y agoYeah just like those American mass famines after the revolutionary war. Completely inevitable.