The Chinese communists' attempt to replace private kitchens and food preparation with communal dining halls is pretty much unanimously agreed to be one of their greatest political failureshttps://twitter.com/ActNormalOrElse/status/1223234402118967298 …
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There is a reason the dining halls started out as this big trumpeted symbol of the prosperity of the new post-revolutionary world and then the whole program was scrapped within like two years
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I mean I dunno What do you think would happen if they came to your neighborhood telling you to donate all your kitchen supplies and volunteer for a shift at a dining hall for you and all your neighbors that was where you'd eat all your meals from now on How do you think it'd go
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Yeah I mean old school orthodox Marxism predicted the revolutionary transition happening in rich countries, not poor countries, and this is kind of a perfect example
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Like I can kind of imagine this kind of thing working out if you had a VERY developed economy that ALREADY HAD a bunch of institutional cafeterias and then the state takes them over and subsidizes them and stuff
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But trying to build it from the ground up among the peasantry, no
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