• ayyy@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Do you truly, actually, believe that the reign of Mao was a net positive?

      • dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net
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        2 months ago

        No, just that his stance on landlords may be worth revisiting.

        Adam Smith was also anti-landlord, FWIW.

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      2 months ago

      Mao wasn’t even the one who executed landlords. He just never really cracked down on the pissed off serfs running kangaroo courts on the people who wronged them.