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Originally Posted by elphenor
convert everything to food production and get destroyed (again)
rapidly industrialize and starve your own people
it's not talked about enough, how any nation that didn't play ball with the capitalists would simply not be allowed to succeed
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Not really. Mao was basically the Trump of his era. He didn't listen to engineers or anyone with expertise (which is why his attempts at large scale commercial irrigation projects all failed), was anti-science and in general was incompetent.