Like anyone else, when farmers aren't adequately compensated for the fruits of their labor, they cease producing or cut way back. Why work hard for no compensation? Would you?
How many people have starved in North Korea in the past ten years? A lot more than in South Korea.
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The irony of this is that communism in practice, even after decades of total control, did not improve the lot of the average person, but usually made their living conditions worse than before the revolution. It is not by chance that the greatest famines have occurred within the Soviet Union (about 5,000,000 dead during 1921-23 and 7,000,000 from 1932-3) and communist China (about 27,000,000 dead from 1959-61). In total almost 55,000,000 people died in various communist famines and associated diseases, a little over 10,000,000 of them from democidal famine.
LINKLenin is supposed to have referred to blind defenders and apologists for the Soviet Union in the Western democracies as "useful idiots." Yet even Lenin might have been surprised at how far these useful idiots would carry their partisanship in later years -- including our own times. Stalin's man-made famine in the Soviet Union during the 1930s killed more millions of people than Hitler killed in the Holocaust -- and Mao's man-made famine in China killed more millions than died in the USSR.
LINKIn contrast, China had suffered a major famine in 1959-61 killing approximately 30 million people. In communist USSR, there were famines, killing millions of people in the areas where the lands are very fertile, the facts of which we may never know! These famines in China and the USSR were due to wrong policies and the communist autocracy. India’s achievement of controlling famines in itself is a great accomplishment.
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