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China hasn't had a famine since 1962, just after the great leap forward and not too long after the US dust bowl.
by camgunz 3y ago
China hasn't had a famine since 1962, just after the great leap forward and not too long after the US dust bowl.
- Kamq 3y agoWhich is an excellent example. Comparing absolute numbers isn't fair to China, but look at the percentage of the population that starved in each country during those relative time periods.
- camgunz 3y agoI just don't think any of that is related to the economic system. It's pretty clearly the result of China having a lot more subsistence farmers when they industrialized.
- Kamq 3y agoBut it is, at least their political system. But those are pretty intertwined in China, especially in that period. They imported Lysenkoism from the soviets (who also had massive famines while implementing it). Which is one of the reasons it's a bad idea to give control of the means of production to the politicians. There are a lot of things that sound good to a politician, but are a bad idea in practice.