Published Monday, July 23, 2007 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
A hysteria of sorts has been generated by reports that some of China's products lack quality control. It's incredible to think how historically insular this frenzy appears in light of the history of modern China, which was the laboratory of one of history's great central planning catastrophes. Following collectivization of land, Mao decided to go further to dictate to the peasants what they would grow, how they would grow it, and where they would ship it, or whether they would grow anything at all as versus plunge into industry. This would become the Great Leap Forward that would generate history's most deadly famine.
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The Death Camp of Communist China (3.45 MB)