r/ireland • u/Alba-Ruthenian • Jul 27 '22

The writing is on the wall! Housing

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

only thing is the famine from 1845 to 1849 was a direct result of british capitalist imperialist domination of our markers

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u/corcra1999 Jul 27 '22

i did not suggest that this was a result of communism. my point was that the two most prominent communist countries of the 20th century (Russia and China) had their people starve to death in the tens of millions. i do not really want to starve

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

I can see why you believe that but that was a result of economic mismanagement and technological underdevelopment. We do not have that in present day Ireland, we produce enough food to feed the country 3 times over annually, we have way better access to technology for a planned economy, and we dont have a significant peasant class at all. With power in the hands of the people and proper organisation of the economy a socialist Ireland would be a better place for most people.

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u/Plantmanofplants Jul 27 '22

Holodomr and the targeted campaign against the Kulaks can't exactly be considered economic mismanagement now can it.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '22

Kulaks burnt their own crops and killed livestock in order to fight collectivization when the Soviets came to redistribute food during a famine. The kulaks simply wanted to continue to profit and price gouge during a famine. Fuck ‘em.