• Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    Mistakes were made during Mao? For sure they were. The balance is still overwhelmingly positive by any metric you want to apply.

    The mistake is millions of death while Mao walks away without any repercussions.

    North-Koreans wouldn’t have had such an extreme policy of international isolation and self-defense.

    And maybe if nk didn’t self isolate for so long they would’ve recover. Just look at singapore. Did you know North Korea have an embassy in Malaysia? Did you know what happen next? They decided to assassinate Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia, then blame Malaysia for it, and cut all ties. NK might have been a victim of US, but their current situation is 100% their own doing.

    Well that conclude my reason of not speaking with Marxist, you guys are nut lol.

    • Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com
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      7 hours ago

      The mistake is millions of death while Mao walks away without any repercussions

      Let’s look at how many “millions of deaths by Mao” (1949-1979):

      India’s life expectancy in 1950: 34 years of age

      India’s life expectancy in 1979: 49 years of age

      China’s life expectancy in 1950: 40 years of age

      China’s life expectancy in 2010: 62 years of age

      Whoops, turns out that China gained 22 years of life expectancy where India gained 15, that’s 50% more and applied to the entire population of a country with a billion people, results in hundreds of millions of lives saved! Turns out you were wrong again because your arguments don’t come from real data but from anticommunist discourse vibes.