Rothmus 🏴
@Rothmus · Aug 1, 2026
In stark contrast to what Deng did in China, up to a million North Koreans starved to death in the 1990s because their government had already banned private farming and lived off Soviet handouts.
The Soviet collapse in 1991 cut the free fuel and fertilizer that had kept the
Rothmus 🏴@Rothmus· Jul 31, 2026800 million people were lifted out of extreme poverty in China thanks to a little bit of capitalism.
Central planning doesn’t work. At least Deng Xiaoping saw Mao’s catastrophic blunders and understood that. Which is why when he took power, he ripped out the collectivized
Elon Musk
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Nightmare
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