David’s Reviews > The Red and the Green: The Rise and Fall of Collectivized Agriculture in Marxist Regimes > Status Update
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I have been unable to locate any statement of his as to why cooperative farms were somehow superior to private agriculture. By the time Cabral was writing (in the 1960s and early 1970s), collectivization of agriculture had become such an unquestioned article of faith that even Marxist agricultural specialists did not worry about its justification or its relation to the original doctrine.
— Apr 05, 2023 11:09PM
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David
is on page 58 of 566
"In the late 1980s two Marxist regimes, those of Cuba and Seychelles, were still actively collectivizing."
To be a traveling scholar of socialism in a time when the marxist bonafides of the Seychelles were an unquestionable fact...
— Aug 24, 2025 01:42AM
To be a traveling scholar of socialism in a time when the marxist bonafides of the Seychelles were an unquestionable fact...
David
is on page 36 of 566
Except for the increasing acreage of average farms, none of Marx's other propositions on the development of agriculture under capitalism receives much empirical support. Of particular importance, the percentage of hired farm workers as a share of the agricultural labor force is not increasing but declining in most countries, suggesting that static economies of scale are not important.
— Apr 05, 2023 08:55AM
