Tons of reasons. Famines were occurring way before the USSR, in the 1890s there was a huge famine in Ukraine and Russia that killed about a million people, and several other smaller regional famines until the Revolution.
During the collectivization a lot of regions slaughtered livestock, destroyed crops and equipment as protest… pikachu face when they realized they just destroyed their food and means of producing it… but was that practice all so widespread to justify all famines? There was poor resource management and planning as well until they managed to industrialize (and stuff like exporting food while people were starving), as long with natural causes… I’m in no way sharp enough to discuss this right now, almost 20 years since I left college and this is a subject I care very little at the moment. But that book I recommended is a start.
There was poor resource management and planning as well until they managed to industrialize (and stuff like exporting food while people were starving), as long with natural causes…
Would you blame the bureaucratization of the CPSU for mismanagement? Also, would other forms such as De Leonism or council communism prevent these famines?
Not to answer for them but DBZer0 is an explicitly anarchist server, in my experience most users fall into the bottom left side of the political compass.
Does DBZer0 allow other forms of communism like De Leonism, council communism, syndicalism, non-anarchist libertarian socialism/Marxism and left communism?
Of course! Look at the sidebar though it is explicitly anarchist. I’m not an admin or mod, just some asshole, personally if someone is not an authoritarian and is anti capitalist we have a lot of common interests but have some ideological differences that can wait until fucking literal fascism and other forms of authoritarianism and done and dusted.
Tons of reasons. Famines were occurring way before the USSR, in the 1890s there was a huge famine in Ukraine and Russia that killed about a million people, and several other smaller regional famines until the Revolution.
During the collectivization a lot of regions slaughtered livestock, destroyed crops and equipment as protest… pikachu face when they realized they just destroyed their food and means of producing it… but was that practice all so widespread to justify all famines? There was poor resource management and planning as well until they managed to industrialize (and stuff like exporting food while people were starving), as long with natural causes… I’m in no way sharp enough to discuss this right now, almost 20 years since I left college and this is a subject I care very little at the moment. But that book I recommended is a start.
Would you blame the bureaucratization of the CPSU for mismanagement? Also, would other forms such as De Leonism or council communism prevent these famines?
My only argument on all of this is really ignore theory, theory is a shower argument, you have to read historians.
Are you more of a libertarian socialist than Marxist-Leninist?
Not to answer for them but DBZer0 is an explicitly anarchist server, in my experience most users fall into the bottom left side of the political compass.
Does DBZer0 allow other forms of communism like De Leonism, council communism, syndicalism, non-anarchist libertarian socialism/Marxism and left communism?
Of course! Look at the sidebar though it is explicitly anarchist. I’m not an admin or mod, just some asshole, personally if someone is not an authoritarian and is anti capitalist we have a lot of common interests but have some ideological differences that can wait until fucking literal fascism and other forms of authoritarianism and done and dusted.