• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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    3 months ago

    Not quite true. Lysenkoism was a completely unforced error all on its own whose failures couldn’t have been conquered by more tractors, but that was ultimately a failing of authoritarianism, not socialism. A mad king or fascist dictator whose advisors feared to tell him the truth, that his ideas were shit and didn’t work, would have resulted in the same thing.

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      3 months ago

      Failures of applying science aren’t exempt in capitalism, we’ve literally had climate change denialism for what, 5 decades now?

      And anyway, the peak of Lysenkoism (first time I hear about it btw) according to the article you sent, was on the 40s, which is after the last famine of the USSR, kinda proving my point that once the agriculture was mechanised, hunger disappeared in socialist countries.