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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 22 Mar 2016

    "Socialism" means many things, but pure forms caused 6/10 worst 20th C famines: quick reminder from Marian Tupy.http://goo.gl/N1Qc0W 

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      2. Steffen Christensen‏ @Wikisteff 22 Mar 2016
        Replying to @sapinker

        @sapinker To be fair, Steven, more than one of those was due to Lysenkoism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism 

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      3.  ⛰️ ʝ̀̃Ɩ̆ʄ͂ą̓ąơ͋ ⛰️‏ @AnAvianOmen 22 Mar 2016
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        @Wikisteff @sapinker But Lysenkoism itself was motivated reasoning that saw Mendelian genomics as reactionary. Indelibly tied to socialism.

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      1. Dr. Ryan McCourt‏ @MarcCountry 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker How odd: these supposed "pure forms" of socialism don't sound anything like 'socialism'. Big military budget, low health budget..?

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      1. vakibs‏ @vakibs 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker "pure forms"? Capitalism doesn't own its own famines. Also "excess mortality" is a loose metric to judge if a system has failed.

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      1. Donald Smith‏ @donsmith64 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @CapX How inane. I'll try to scrape up some "capitalism & hunger tweets." Won't be hard.

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      1. chris pitcher‏ @mrskabenga 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @CapX oversimplification

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      1. Michael Schuler‏ @Michael_BSEP 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Comparing Bernie and Pol Pot is a bit of a conceptual stretch, isn't it?

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      1. Carlos Bauche Madero‏ @carbauche 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @CapX you could do the same analysis with the poorest capitalist countries and get basically the same results

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      1. Michael Schuler‏ @Michael_BSEP 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker @Capx "Reparations" means many things, but majority of worst 20th C famines were in European colonies or former colonies.

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      1. Robin Turner‏ @bold_sir_robin 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker and 9/21 of the ones quoted. Come on, a social scientist should have a better head for figures.

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      1. Robin Turner‏ @bold_sir_robin 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker If you call that a "pure form" you have a strange definition of "pure".

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      2. Leanne Davis‏ @Cosmic_Slice 22 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker Articles like this are why people freak out at the very mention of socialism, there are countries where types of it works.

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      4. Leanne Davis‏ @Cosmic_Slice 22 Mar 2016

        @DSCHHHHH @sapinker Canada among many other countries has a form of socialism & it works just fine. Anything taken to the extreme is harmful

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      6. Leanne Davis‏ @Cosmic_Slice 23 Mar 2016

        @DSCHHHHH @sapinker Well, there are only 5 countries in the world that are debt free, want no debt then move to Liechtenstein.

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      1. Single Party RuuUuuUule (say it ghostly)‏ @cheyneyr 23 Mar 2016
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        @sapinker This seems more Heritage Foundation than Cato Institute. Was there a takeover?

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