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    1 year ago

    Africa alone has enough capitalist countries (imperial holdings) with famines over the same time period to disprove that. then we can start talking about bengal and ireland.

    communist countries don’t have more famines than capitalist ones.

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        1 year ago

        okay, you want links to prove that capitalist famines in africa outnumber communist famines in the whole world over the same time period:

        Wikipedia article on “famine”, section “africa”

        i’ll just summarize from that one section:

        famine in the congo caused by belgians

        the rinderpest virus

        belgians taking grain in rwanda during ww2

        the british made malawi pay for food aid for a famine british administrators created through mismanagement

        famine in karamoja, uganda brought on by instability in the region (wonder what made it unstable… oh well, resuming patrol)

        The tigray famine in ethiopia and then the 83-85 one with live aid as the cherry on top showing that not only does capitalism create and exacerbate the conditions for famine but also can’t respond to one when it’s ostensibly trying.

        somalia 92’ came from conditions directly created by global capital

        and if those few, i know i’m leaving so much information out, aren’t enough it is the explicit policy of the IMF and world bank to make countries dependent on food imports.

        and that’s just a brief summary from the broadest overview (often minimized with language that suggests these are somehow the fault of the victims) page on shitty ol’ wikipedia. imagine what a real survey of the history from primary sources would turn up!