Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this?

RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There was only ever one famine in the USSR, partly caused by kulaks burning grain. There were dozens of famines under the Tsars.

The same goes for China, there were dozens of famines under the emperors.

Communism ended famine.

Were those famines caused by poor political decisions? Possibly, but both countries were emerging from feudal subsistence farming, and had been ravaged by bitter civil wars. The position they were in meant even a single poor political decision could have caused a famine, if we were in that position today, with the leaders we have, we would all be dead.

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