[lbo-talk] Agricultural Collectivization

[Brad DeLong]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>At 11:49 AM -0700 7/21/03, Brad DeLong wrote:
>>
>>>>I'd like to point out three things. The first is that the main 
>>>>danger of agricultural collectivization comes from the tendency 
>>>>of such systems to create "monocultures" of crops
>>>
>>>
>>>No. The main danger from agricultural collectivization comes from 
>>>all the people who got shot during the process of reenserfment of 
>>>the peasantry, and all the people who thereafter starve as 
>>>production drops and required grain deliveries rise.
>>
>>
>>How about some facts?
>
>North Korea aside, I'd like Brad to explain how the people who get 
>shot and starve to death are the source of the "main danger from 
>agricultural collectivization." He's clearly blaming some victims 
>here.

You pretend not to understand. The main danger from agricultural 
collectivization is that millions of peasants get shot and starved to 
death in the process.

I know you think it is all a big joke. But not all of us think that 
the Great Leap Forward and what followed was as funny as you do.

Brad DeLong