History shows lives better under socialist system

DIANE DIMOND, in the (Journal) … June 8, writes that “Young socialists miss what D-Day was about.” Her piece is riddled with falsehoods and foolishness, but I will focus on just one. She says: “I stand unconvinced that a group of government bureaucrats can adequately produce, distribute and ensure an uninterrupted food supply.” That’s an amazing statement, since the greatest accomplishment of all time, in terms of securing uninterrupted food supply, goes to the government bureaucrats of China, namely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), originally under Mao and later others. Mao and the CCP abolished famine in China. Abolished it. Since the 1948 revolution, there has been a grand total of one famine, in 1959-1960, and that one due mostly to bad weather. Before that, for 2,000 years, China had an average of one horrible famine every year. Since 1960, now nearly 60 years, no famines. Not one. Truly an incredible accomplishment, comparable to the abolition of slavery or other epochal human rights achievements.

I called Dimond’s statement “amazing,” but it really is not. It is typical of Americans steeped in pro-capitalism propaganda, and clueless about the numerous and oft-breathtaking triumphs of socialism; for example, the literal doubling of life expectancy in China and Russia after their respective revolutions, and the lifting of a half-billion Chinese out of poverty over just the past three decades, again creditable to the CCP.

May America soon awaken to the now-compounding failures of capitalism and embrace the obviously superior socialism as the only humane path to the future — and, considering the onrushing climate disaster, possibly the only path to a future of any kind. I thank Dimond for bringing to my attention the very encouraging poll statistic that large sectors of the voting public now approve of socialism over capitalism. Hear, hear!

ALAN LEWIS Ann Arbor, Michigan