When a country emerges from extremely underdeveloped agriculture, famine is still a constant threat. Early PRC history involves famine as a result of not yet having developed out of conditions famine thrived. It wasn’t something as mechanical as “do a socialism and then people die.”
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No? Mao spent decades at war in some of the most brutal conditions possible, then successfully ended regular famine in China forever.
What about the Great Leap Forward? 20+ million died
When a country emerges from extremely underdeveloped agriculture, famine is still a constant threat. Early PRC history involves famine as a result of not yet having developed out of conditions famine thrived. It wasn’t something as mechanical as “do a socialism and then people die.”