“When a thing defies physical law, there’s usually politics involved. Drought, floods, crop failures, and insect pests have played a part in some modern famines, but none of these famines was caused by nature. The Chinese famine of 1958-61, the worst famine in history, had nothing to do with weather or ‘acts of God’. In fact, it could be said to have resulted, literally, from an act of godlessness—the imposition of Marxist theory on traditional peasant agriculture. The same thing caused the Ukrainian famine of 1932-34 and the Cambodian famine of 1975-79.” P.J. O’Rourke
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