My friend made me install Bumble. I want something that leftists will recognize but that won’t immediately scare off liberals (I can fix them)
Does anyone have any cool Lenin quotes for this purpose or something
My friend made me install Bumble. I want something that leftists will recognize but that won’t immediately scare off liberals (I can fix them)
Does anyone have any cool Lenin quotes for this purpose or something
Weird, but then why Wikipedia says “Mao’s policies were responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation” ? 🤷 EDIT : Oops didn’t realize on which instance I was, sorry.
For context, tens of millions of people being wiped out by famine was something that happened every couple of decades in China. What makes the famine under Mao notable was that it was the last famine China ever had, thanks in large part to the comprehensive revolution mentioned above, which allowed the state to pursue long term policies that benefitted the whole society instead of the wealthy class
Famines on this scale were relatively normal in China and a mainstay of the Chinese Empire’s boom and bust cycles, as well as ecological catastrophe spreading thin the fragile bureaucracy. Only one government in China has been shown to be able to decisively end famine since, and it’s the same one that eradicated absolute poverty. Hope that helps!
If you used the same metric to quantify the deaths during the Great Depression in the United States, you would end up with a death toll of 11 million
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It was based off of a boots riley tweet that was posted here some months back. I’ll go digging for it after I clock off work
https://hexbear.net/post/262581
This post right here, though I misremembered the number, it would have been 9 million dead theoretically
I love counting unborn people in my death rates
weird, I actually read the opposite if you look here
Thanks for the very thorough response
you are very welcome, always glad to correct misconceptions like this
(if you really wanted to learn the context behind why we use that quote you could always ask questions in good faith in a separate post here on this comm or on !asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml or !communism101@lemmygrad.ml )