Andie wrote
> There never was a communsit movement in Taiwan. China, however, is huge, an absolutely gigantic plus --
despite the Great Leap Forward and the inanities of the CR, the improvement in life for ordinary Chinese
even under Mao was incalculable.
But was the Great Leap Forward and the inanities of the CR a by-product of the policies or aberrations that could and should have been avoided?
> If you want to look at capitalist disasters and famines that rackedup higher body counts, check out Mike Davis' Late Victorian Holocausts -- among other sources.
But us any body count acceptable no matter what the policy that brings it about -- capitalist, Buddhist or communist?
Brian Dauth Queer Buddhist Resister