John VanSickle wrote:
> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>> John VanSickle wrote:
>>> The only genuinely human-induced famines (and the only famines to strike
>>> industrialized nations) occurred in communist nations, whether due to
>>> the sheer incompetence of the communist system (China's Great Leap
>>> Forward starved millions) or malice of communist leaders (Lenin
>>> purposefully starved millions of people).
>>
>>     Saying "only" is a stretch.
>>
>>     Recently there was a "famine" in Niger. There was no real shortage of
>> food. Plenty of food was available, but it was unaffordable:
>>
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,1540214,00.html
>>
>> Niger is anything but a communist country.
> 
> Well, I stand corrected; the only cases of human-induced *mass 
> starvation* occurred in nations claiming to follow some form of Marxism.
> 
The Great Hunger in 19th century Ireland?
Although the importance of the human factor there is a point of debate.

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