Strongly disagree, you're example is nonsensical as it's normally used to prove the exact opposite. Nearly every quality of life improvement and economic boom in China and Russia during those periods are directly tied to adopting some parts of capitalistic systems.

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griffzhowl 10 hours ago | parent [-]

What quality of life improvements are you thinking of that weren't based on mass electrification and mechanization of agriculture?

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Ray20 an hour ago | parent [-]

Those that happened in the USSR and China, no? After the start of electrification and active mechanization of agriculture, more peasants died of hunger there than in the previous 100 years (in Russia more than in the previous 200 years).

	▲	baq 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		At least some of them died because they weren't allowed to consume what they produced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor