History Fact: Stalin's Russia and Mao's China inadvertently starved millions of their own people because they denied biology.
The Communists imprisoned or killed any scientists who argued in favor of evolution via natural selection and genetic inheritance, because these conflicted with their radical egalitarian/humanitarian fantasies (tha…
History Fact: Stalin's Russia and Mao's China inadvertently starved millions of their own people because they denied biology.
The Communists imprisoned or killed any scientists who argued in favor of evolution via natural selection and genetic inheritance, because these conflicted with their radical egalitarian/humanitarian fantasies (that an unconditionally altruistic society would one day be possible).
Basically, the Communists said: "If you believe in biology, then you're a capitalist Nazi! Thus, you need to be silenced!"
This destroyed their ability to do agriculture correctly. They pushed for a pseudoscience called Lamarckism/Lysenkoism: the idea that everything is nurture and nothing is nature. As per this, the Communists planted crops ridiculously closely together, because they believed that this would make the crops "cooperate" with each other better and grow bigger and faster with fewer resources (thus saving water and nutrients in the soil).
No really.
Suffice to say, the crops didn't care about their ideological fantasies. The scarce/limited resources resulted in the crops all collectively dying out (a perfect metaphor for Communist states in general), and massive crop failures ensued all over the Soviet Union and China, leading to millions of deaths by starvation.
History Fact: Stalin's Russia and Mao's China inadvertently starved millions of their own people because they denied biology.
The Communists imprisoned or killed any scientists who argued in favor of evolution via natural selection and genetic inheritance, because these conflicted with their radical egalitarian/humanitarian fantasies (that an unconditionally altruistic society would one day be possible).
Basically, the Communists said: "If you believe in biology, then you're a capitalist Nazi! Thus, you need to be silenced!"
This destroyed their ability to do agriculture correctly. They pushed for a pseudoscience called Lamarckism/Lysenkoism: the idea that everything is nurture and nothing is nature. As per this, the Communists planted crops ridiculously closely together, because they believed that this would make the crops "cooperate" with each other better and grow bigger and faster with fewer resources (thus saving water and nutrients in the soil).
No really.
Suffice to say, the crops didn't care about their ideological fantasies. The scarce/limited resources resulted in the crops all collectively dying out (a perfect metaphor for Communist states in general), and massive crop failures ensued all over the Soviet Union and China, leading to millions of deaths by starvation.