Sociology courses have been nice and all and my last two profs in it were left-liberals who were fairly civil and nuanced about Communism as far as liberals go. but my new one, on day 1 of a course titled Inequality, described it as a “bloodbath”, said Mao “killed several hundreds of millions” (to hell with Courteois and his 100 million, I think we can get to a billion) and asserted that the Russian and Chinese revolutions produced societies with greater income stratification than… imperial core countries like US and Nordics today.
Animal Farm theory of Communism being “make everyone equal overnight”, undialectical liberal worldview, numbers multiplied several times even from what was in the Black Book… This is more what I expect to hear from a high school teacher.
Due to runaway inflation, there are now 1 billion victims of communism
Fun fact: in 1950, there were only 500 million people in China. That means that Mao killed half the population of China. That’s a little less than the raw percentage of population loss from the native population of North America in the 19th century (~600k in 1800 to 250k in 1890). Funnily enough, in 1979, the population of China had nearly doubled from the 1950 figures.
I guess we’ll never know what happened in North America, but that Mao guy sure was evil.
