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Privatalisation of farm lands?? Good for chinese or bad?

The current article states that a ban on the private farm lands had caused massive harm to chinese society and culture..based on what truth?

According to a Guardian paper quoted study,

"Privatisation in eastern Europe often led to massive thefts of public property by oligarchs and became deeply unpopular, with strong majorities of people in all post-Communist countries wanting its revision. Privatisation is also disliked in India, Latin America and China itself, while studies of privatisation in many parts of the world show it can have a deleterious effect on development. Land privatisation in China would rapidly create land concentration and landless peasants."

Source https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/dec/15/nobel-winner-liu-xiaobo-chinese-dissident

It is a country with a vast population and filthy rich people could have easily bought out large private land banks and left very few for the poor peasants. Hence is it right to make such a bold pro capitalist statement that a ban on private land is indeed harmful to chinese civillians? Or that it omits the disadvantages of privatisation of lands.202.52.36.52 (talk) 06:17, 21 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

yeah, you wrote this in an article about the greatest famine in human history, caused by communism.

let me know when capitalism causes the greatest famine in human history.

by the way you are conflating capitalism with oligarchism, when you should be talking about descentralization against centralization which is really the culprit of this issue. 88.131.68.199 (talk) 11:06, 19 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

He is a commie defender after all, can't expect too much intelligence. 2601:18D:8C7F:C100:DC0E:E0BA:6500:E58 (talk) 05:45, 9 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ideas like that is why you should not be allowed to write on wiki for you incredibly obvious bias, the person asked a genuine question. 78.69.116.184 (talk) 09:37, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India

here you go, capitalism directly killing millions of people in a famine. 2604:3D09:217F:EA70:2050:D0CB:ABF7:40F7 (talk) 03:26, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

"jin per mu"

This article's use of "jin per mu" without conversion is not appropriate, since these units are completely meaningless to 99.9999% of English speakers. Even jin is an obscure name for for the catty, which is already obscure enough even among experts in units. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 13:50, 23 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]