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Originally Posted by JManc
Mismanagements/ incompetence leading to famine is still not the same as an intentional act; i.e., the Holodomor, Khmer Rouge, etc. China's Great Leap Forward was mainly due to gross mismanagement and likely not intentional. Just another example why collectivism and central planning were a failed experiment.
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Same for the British in Ireland and India. Not intentional. Governments with unshaken faith on political/economic dogmas and ignoring the reality on the ground.
Economic and political theories are (or should be) elaborated to explain reality and not to make reality to adapt to them.