(1/3) Well I don’t think there was a founder— an obscure critic named J.M. Thompson coined the term in 1914 to describe a trend in skepticism he observed/identified with. Its origins are debated, but it *was* later popularized by French post-structuralists...
1. It was a famine, caused by Mao's demand that industrial production, particularly iron production increase. So villagers would melt down agricultural tools to meet the quota. It had nothing to do with killing birds and everything to do with party policy.
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Although the rapid industrialization was disastrous in its own right, the branch of GLF policy that *primarily* led to the frame was their central approach to agrarian collectivism. Killing birds *was* one disastrous agrarian party policy, of several. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign …
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Bottom line: besides this type of policy not even making sense in an already industrilialized society; and the fact that many socialists— including myself— strongly oppose ANY sort of centralized, authoritative planning; agricultural science has advanced far beyond Maoist China.
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