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ben_wtoday at 6:58 AM0 repliesview on HN

A better example of capitalism doing actual famine would be the Irish Potato Famine, which was concurrent with the writing of the actual Communist Manifesto.

Communism has also had famine, famously both the Holodomor in the USSR and the Great Leap Forward in China.

The only thing that really seems to end famine, is a deliberate policy of subsidising the overproduction of food.