/liberty/ - Liberty

>>100798

Regarding China's speak in death rates in that one year(1966), was because it was the year of the Fire Horse. Both fire and horses are symbols of freedom and free spirits, so the combination gives you the most free spirited and rebellious person imaginable. The problem is that if a girl was born in that year, she would become rebellious, lazy, never listens to her parents or husband, doesn't cook or clean, spends all the money and nags a lot, basically the worst possible woman imaginable. So no to risk having a girl, many decided not to make babies that year, and does that did, it it turned out to a be a girl, threw them in the dumpster.

Even the Japanese are guilty of this, and it's more regarding superstition, rather than socialism.

http://www.chinabuddhismencyclopedia.com/en/index.php/Year_of_the_Fire_Horse

>>100798

>Why does socialism keep growing until it reaches a level of starvation and famine in some countries?

It actually doesn't always do that. Sometimes, it hits a limit in its growth before it causes widespread famine. It always leaves whatever society it infects worse than it was before, like a flu, but also like the flu, it can be the equivalent of a really bad cold (as in Cuba), or it can outright kill you (as in China). Depends on your society, and the socialist ideology penetrating it. Cuba has a sizable Catholic population, and Catholic societies produce rather benign rulers. China, on the other hand, was always authoritarian and totalitarian, so when the communists took it over, they met little resistance in making the worst of it.

>Also, it kind of feels like the Holodomor and Mao's famine is forgotten about.

Yeah, they kinda are. Pdf related is a very good introduction to this topic.

>>100824

Very interesting, I did not know this before.