Quentin Mouron: «Capitalism doesn't count its dead».»3 reading minutes

Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. In his column, writer Quentin Mouron explores a topical issue with his usual sharpness.

The 20th century was a century of mass massacres, civil wars, genocides and great famines. The deadliest of these occurred in China between 1959 and 1961, caused by the ideological blindness of Mao and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and their criminal stubbornness in modernizing the country (the so-called «Great Leap Forward»). Yet Mao had been warned by Khrushchev, who feared a repeat of the great famine of the early 1930s (caused by the agricultural reforms of Stalin's Five-Year Plan). These two famines, these two tragedies, these two pieces of noi