[epistasis]

The problem is not monetization of basic needs, the problem is putting the controlling interest in the hands of a few who do not care about the lives of the many.

This famine happened from the concentration of power, not because food costs money. Democratic land reform solves it, keeping the monetary impetus in play.

The Holodomor was a very similar genocide where farms were collectivized. That didn't stop millions of people from dying from hunger as their own food was taken at gunpoint and exported to other countries.

We must judge harshly, but on the proper aspect.

[Ray20]

>That didn't stop millions of people from dying from hunger as their own food was taken at gunpoint and exported to other countries.

The problem was not exactly that, there wasn't food export when there was famine. Communists are not that stupid. All they wanted was to overcome the corporate greed of the peasantry, who often sold food to workers at 2, 3, or 5 times the price, so they fought price gouging on food, determining fair prices, that would allow all the country to be well-fed.

But for some unknown reason in response to that beautiful and righteous policy the peasantry reduced food production, which caused the famine.

[epistasis]

I'm not sure if you are mocking the absurdity of the false communist narrative or just repeating it uncritically.

So to be clear: Communists exported food, stolen from the people who grew it, which is very well known, here's one citation from Wikipedia:

> In regard to exports, Michael Ellman states that the 1932–1933 grain exports amounted to 1.8 million tonnes, which would have been enough to feed 5 million people for one year.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%93...

Further it wasn't "stupidity" of Communists but rather a deliberate genocide of those considered inferior. They sent groups of soldiers around the countryside to steal more grain as children starved in the streets. It is one of the more horrific acts of brutality in the 20th century, all in service of authoritarianism.

[Ray20]

>In regard to exports, Michael Ellman states that the 1932–1933 grain exports amounted to 1.8 million tonnes

That is blatant manipulation. Most of those grain de facto didn't left the country and were used to fight famine. From 1930 there was massive grain import. Moreover, import was considered by Stalin from 1928, but at that time all the statistics showed, that food situation will be fully fixed by fair share from upper parts of peasantry.

>deliberate genocide of those considered inferior

This is literally a conspiracy theory on the level of the Jews starting World War II to exterminate the Europeans.

>They sent groups of soldiers around the countryside to steal more grain as children starved in the streets.

Yeas, and they did that exactly to give that grain to those children.

The fact is, communists with all honesty tried to achieve a fair distribution of necessities to the poorest. But as always leftist's "fair" implies market incentive distortion and as a result hindered production.

The cause of the famine is not the evil communists who took grain from hungry peasants, communists simply tried to take excess food from the rich and give it to the poor. The cause of the famine is the 7-fold drop in food production. And when you have that drop - there inevitable will be mass famine.