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Frameworks for Thinking about Tragic Historical Shortcomings of the Socialist Experience

People's History of Ideas Podcast

English - October 04, 2023 14:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 110 ratings
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Answering a listener question on the Great Leap Forward famine.

Further reading:
Mobo Gao, The Battle for China’s Past
United Nations, “Losing 25,000 to Hunger Every Day”
Minhaz Merchant, “Churchill’s Bengal Famine”
Karl Marx, Capital
Mike Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts
Frederick Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

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