[flammafex]

As an Irish person, I want you to explain to me how "left wing" the British were when they had us export our food at gunpoint.

[mike_hearn]

You're misinterpreting what I wrote. I didn't say all famines were caused by left wing policies. Obviously historically most were caused by natural disaster, like the Irish potato blight. But when famines have been caused by social change, it wasn't due to the march of technology.

The British never forced anyone in Ireland to export food "at gunpoint".