[lbo-talk] Agricultural Collectivization

Brian Siano siano at mail.med.upenn.edu
Tue Jul 22 08:07:10 PDT 2003


Brian Siano wrote:


> Brad DeLong wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>
>
> What's to pretend? I'm just reading what you wrote: that the main
> danger comes from the people who were being shot and starved. Now,
> you're saying that the main danger _is_ that peasants get shot and
> starve to death.
>
> Don't get all whiny and moany just because you can't use communicate
> very well.

Correction: Don't get all whiny and moany just because you can't communicate very well.

At least I correct my mistakes. Unlike Brad, who seems to have some weird desire to see everyone else as a Stalinist.



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