• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    A famine that wasn’t caused by the ideology directly, but by picking the wrong guy to run agriculture. It wasn’t communism that caused the famine, it was Trofim Lysenko’s unscientific ideology; Lysenkoism.

    …plus Authoritarian Communism shouldn’t count, amd the death tolls of Capitalism, Colonialism, and The Catholic Church have all been higher in total.

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      19 days ago

      Although you can say that the fervent devotion to communism was what got Lysenko’s ideas of what was essentially a Marxist botany theory got implemented.

      That’s not a condemnation of communism, but it is a condemnation of how you can let any ideology get out of control.