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Originally Posted by djforsberg
We are talking about something specific: poverty. China has its problems but they brought the most people out of poverty, in the second half of the 20th century, than any other nation in the history of humanity. If you want a more geographically relevant example: has anyone ever heard of the Great Depression? Do you think extreme poverty, hunger, and unemployment were greatly reduced in America, for example, without any planned, grand intervention? It’s baffling the lack of knowledge of recent history considering our access to information in the modern era. Clearly we need more libraries and better education.
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Mussolini made the trains run on time, sorry about that fascist thing. And to compare CPC controlled China (Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution killed millions) with the New Deal of Roosevelt is quite the stretch. Jesus man, you'd don't need to slaughter millions to make an intervention to better peoples lives.
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