Yes, he made this argument about the famine following the Great Leap Forward.
This quote does not give a complete representation of his views though. He also says that, while a large famine like that wouldn't happen in a democracy, in the long run more people died of hunger in capitalist India than in communist China - because China eventually addressed its problems, while India just accepted a certain amount of yearly deaths as normal.
is that amartya sen?
Yes, he made this argument about the famine following the Great Leap Forward.
This quote does not give a complete representation of his views though. He also says that, while a large famine like that wouldn't happen in a democracy, in the long run more people died of hunger in capitalist India than in communist China - because China eventually addressed its problems, while India just accepted a certain amount of yearly deaths as normal.
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lmao that dumbfuck