• SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    15-30 million

    Hello yeah Mao stays winning.

    I don’t hear that talked about as a reason why capitalism is terrible much.

    Probably because the overwhelming majority of people agree it was bad, especially here on lemmy. Find me 5 people that say the potato famine was good, actually, and I’ll find you 3 entire instances that’ll ban me for saying “maybe killing 15-30 million people for societal progress isn’t the best strategy.”

    Tankies get more pushback here because nobody is singing the praises of capitalism.

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      8 hours ago

      Yeah people agree the famine in China was bad too. Even Mao and other officials in China agreed there were mistakes and made changes afterwards. Are you aware China experienced devastating famines on average of once a century for the previous 2000 years before that? There hasn’t been a famine since then.

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        Yeah people agree the famine in China was bad too.

        Say that on the triad I fucking dare you.

        There hasn’t been a famine since then.

        Under a system with significant capitalist elements, you western dog. How many billionaires are there in China?