Maggie's Farm

We may get some competition on the deadliest ideology this century.

In the left corner, we have Communists (of a sort) in China are making aggressive moves in their part of the world and Russia, which seems to be trying to bring back the "glory" of Stalin's USSR, is making trouble in Eastern Europe.

And in the caliphate corner, we have Islamists who want to usher in their version of utopia by making up for time lost in the 20th century. One reason the Islamists were such pikers in the last century is that they didn't have any technology and for a lot of that time, they didn't even have any money. Now they have money (thanks to the US and England showing them that there was oil in the Middle East and how to drill it) and, especially in the case of Iran, they have technology.

It's going to be a fun century!

The majority of those killed by communism were the result of social/economic engineering, but primarily agricultural "reforms". Stalin killed upwards of 9 million people with his agricultural collectivization (which is not to minimize the fact they killed a lot of people by other various means).

It seems killing people by starving them is much more effective than even systematically murder (as Hitler tried to do). And communist (collective) ideas about agriculture is probably the best way to go about it. However, the left is trying to challenge that method of mass death with their own agricultural reforms such as their opposition to agricultural advances like GMO foods, their ecological policies that, for example, favor a rare little fish above growing food, and their fetish for crops grown in sh*t rather than "chemical" fertilizers.