Agriculture under a revolution

[Kurt Crover]

I mean what is it about agriculture under systems like the Soviet Union and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea that makes them fuck it up so much? There was widespread famine in the USSR, especially in the Ukraine and Hungary. Many people died, with forced requistion of grain etc. the North Koreans heavily rely on food aid and there has been famine before. Can anybody can help me?

[Severian]

Basically? Forced collectivization.

The biggest famines in the USSR and PRC were associated with it. Agriculture took permanent damage, especially in the USSR. Some details on the extent of the damage. (http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936-rev/ch02.htm#ch02-2)

Marx, Engels, and Lenin all favored gradual and voluntary collectivization, and Cuba has practiced it.

The laboring population of the countryside are natural allies of working people. Coercion against them is unnecessary and harmful - both politically and economically.

[Demogorgon]

A big part of the problem has simply been urban politicians trying to sort out rural problems. Always a recipe for disaster it seems. Fortunately it is easy to fix. Just let rural planners draw up and implement a plan for collectivisation.