> On Thu, March 11, 2010 9:00 am, Somebody Somebody wrote:
>
> > The clearest example of how low productivity under socialism matters is
> > in agriculture.
>
> One-party states in postcolonial agrarian nations are not socialism.
> They're just temporary responses to the violence of colonialism, a means
> of jump-starting indigenous accumulation.
>
However we're defining it, communal farms didn't exactly jump-start indigenous accumulation, did they? (There's been plenty of successful egalitarian land reform, of course.)