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Great Leap Forward
Central Planning .. by very few elitists committee management
In 1958 Mao inaugurated the Great Leap Forward, a disastrous attempt to rapidly industrialize, collectivize agriculture on an enormous scale and develop China though the construction of massive earthworks and irrigation projects
One of Mao's goals during the Great Leap Forward was for China to surpass Britain in steel production in less than five years.
During the Great Leap Forward, farmers were encouraged to make steel instead of grow crops, peasants were forced onto unproductive communes and grain was exported at the time people were starving.
Millions of pots and pans and tools was turned into useless slag. Entire mountainsides were denuded to provide wood for the smelters.
Villager stripped remaining forests for food and ate most of Chinas birds.
People went hungry because they had melted down their agricultural tools and spent time in the backyard smelters rather than in the fields tending their crops.
Crop yields also declined because Mao ordered farmers to grow crops using the dubious practices of close planting and deep plowing.
"At least 45 million people died unnecessarily between 1958 and 1962. The term 'famine', or even 'Great Famine', is often used to describe these four to five years of the Maoist era, but the term fails to capture the many ways in which people died under radical collectivization.
50 years later - 2012 after 45 million dead "progress"???
..is simply a synopsis of the progressive understanding of the State. The State has always been seen by the left as the engine of history. When Obama says he's about going Forward, he's also saying that he thinks the government is the thing that moves us all forward, that the State is the source of Progress.
What Barack Obama's 'Forward' Slogan Really Means - Scott Galupo (usnews.com)
Central Planning .. by very few elitists committee management
In 1958 Mao inaugurated the Great Leap Forward, a disastrous attempt to rapidly industrialize, collectivize agriculture on an enormous scale and develop China though the construction of massive earthworks and irrigation projects
One of Mao's goals during the Great Leap Forward was for China to surpass Britain in steel production in less than five years.
During the Great Leap Forward, farmers were encouraged to make steel instead of grow crops, peasants were forced onto unproductive communes and grain was exported at the time people were starving.
Millions of pots and pans and tools was turned into useless slag. Entire mountainsides were denuded to provide wood for the smelters.
Villager stripped remaining forests for food and ate most of Chinas birds.
People went hungry because they had melted down their agricultural tools and spent time in the backyard smelters rather than in the fields tending their crops.
Crop yields also declined because Mao ordered farmers to grow crops using the dubious practices of close planting and deep plowing.
"At least 45 million people died unnecessarily between 1958 and 1962. The term 'famine', or even 'Great Famine', is often used to describe these four to five years of the Maoist era, but the term fails to capture the many ways in which people died under radical collectivization.
50 years later - 2012 after 45 million dead "progress"???
..is simply a synopsis of the progressive understanding of the State. The State has always been seen by the left as the engine of history. When Obama says he's about going Forward, he's also saying that he thinks the government is the thing that moves us all forward, that the State is the source of Progress.
What Barack Obama's 'Forward' Slogan Really Means - Scott Galupo (usnews.com)
