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Right racists be gone (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Soooo completely misunderstand my country's existing economy and ecology, make a bunch of boneheaded decisions, then proceed to murder tens of millions with my dictatorship in the name of "modernization" while creating one of the most oppressive, least politically free governments in human history?

.......I'll pass, thanks.

[+] [email protected] -13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you genuinely think that Mao's land reforms resulted in too many deaths instead of not enough, I don't know what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Your problem is that only tens of millions of people died? Wtf?

[+] [email protected] -11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

We're talking about landlords who were so abusive that the instant their tenants were free they each individually chose to murder them. Like it wasn't a coordinated terror attack, it was millions of people all choosing to take extreme violence for likely the same reason.

Literally all the land reforms said was "release your slaves" so it's not on anyone but the landlords for what happened next.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

We’re talking about the tens of millions of peasants who starved to death because Mao didn’t understand agriculture or mechanization.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Let's literally kill all the bad people because that's a great solution for everything!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

And of course if I alone get to decide who the bad people are, it will be completely fair.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

I mean a distaste for capitalism puts you in good company here but Mao's China is one of the shittiest examples you could pick as an alternative, that's one of the governments the right throws around as a stereotype for why they say communism is horrible and they do that with good reason.