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		bigbillheck on Feb 21, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Japan bets $67B to become a global chip powerhouse... > Serious Communist China ended with everyone starving This is certainly a claim, let's see how it stands up against the historical record (as from wiki): 1961: Last famine in the PRC 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution 1976: Mao dies I'm having a bit of trouble reconciling these, but if you've got some arguments explaining why the Cultural Revolution was after the end of "Serious Communist China" I'd be interested.

joshuaissac on Feb 21, 2024 [–]

I agree. Communes were only privatised in the early 1980s, and I think that is a better marker for the end of communism in China.

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