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disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

the same thing happened during post-colonial land redistribution in Africa, and that had nothing to do with communism. when you take land from the people who know what they’re doing and give it to people who don’t, then you disrupt supply chains, you’re going to get famine. so don’t do that. get the people who know what they’re doing on your side.

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deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

when you take land from the people

But that’s the main characteristic of communism. The ruling class takes the resources from the people to misallocate them.

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- disregardable@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Communism has nothing to do with resource misallocation. That’s a thing that some communist governments did, as did democratic governments and theocratic governments. It’s really not surprising that a populist takeover by mob rule did not instantly create an efficient system of communist government- that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to work out an effective system of communist government. That means they were too impatient to gradually work out a system that would actually improve the circumstance for everyone involved.
  
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