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So you're saying there was more starvation after Deng Xiaoping's capitalist reforms than during the communist era?

• whitemary 4y ago
  Opposite because in China Mao navigated primitive accumulation so later eras didn't have to. The first fundamental error with the Russian and Chinese revolutions, as Karl Marx warned, was underestimating the difficulty and brutality required to achieve primitive accumulation. Ironically its the same analytical error that Adam Smith made, but in the interest of a different end. For context, Karl Marx condemned revolutionary efforts in pre-capitalist nations for these reasons. This included Russia and China because they were still feudalist states. Karl Marx insisted Germany was the necessary focus.
• notahacker 4y ago
  I imagine it's more like there is less starvation and hunger in modern mixed economies with their very uncapitalistic welfare states than during the laissez-faire glory years of the Industrial Revolution...