Were british empire' famines a feature or a bug?

>>2696627
they were fake news created by the dishonest french media

>>2696627
feature. The system heavily encouraged the development of them intentionally and unintentionally. Same with underdevelopment in many colonies held by many powers.

A feature, going from how they were reported at the time.

A bug, going from how historians write about them today.

The Bengal Famine saw food being exported from that country while farmers starved. If a local government did the same thing, they would have caused the famine. Since the British did it, they caused the famine.

>>2696627
Premodern agriculture (let's just say before 1900) left a ton to chance. However, the potato famine was purposefully exacerbated.

>>2696710
>The Potato Famine was deliberate
They didn't do enough of a good job then.

>>2696718

It forestalled the scheduled revolt. Typically Ireland revolts against foreign rule once every two and a half generations or so. The Famine took place around the time one was due.

Ireland has still not recovered from the Famine. It's the only country to have a smaller population today than it did 200 years ago.

>>2696627
The British Empire were capitalist so it was a feature. Capitalism and famine go hand in hand as the farmers are exploited for profit.

>>2696710
What was the purpose of the famine?

>>2696765

Prevent Irish independence.

>>2696765
"The British caused the famine" is a dumb meme

>>2696627
>1943-1944
>3.5 Million dead
Fucking wew lad

>>2696734
Alot of Irish moved.

>>2696750
Riiiight, which is why global hunger rates have dropped like a fucking stone in the last 50 years. It definitely wasn't because of capitalism. No way.

>>2697222
Because capitalist empires are dead anon. If they were still up and running they'd be much worse because of huge conflict of interests.

>>2696801
>Force Ireland to continue exporting wheat
>Send soldiers to enforce this
>Muh Malthus
>Muh carrying capacity

They didn't introduce the potato blight, but that's all that can really be said for them.

>>2697236
No anon.

No.

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>>2697222
>200 years of capitalism
> hunger rates have dropped for the last 50

yup, totally capitalism

What I don't get it is why after all those famines there are one billion of them.

>>2696627
>Britain kills 10 million bengals
>no one cares

>Germany kills 5.5 million Jews
>we have classes and movies and museums about it

Speaking as a Jew, I don't get why Britain isn't as vilified as the nazis

>>2697434
Nobody cares about dead brown people I guess.

>>2697434
It was unintentional?

>>2697461
Because Jews have power, Browns don't. Out of the two Jews are less threatening as one since among western nation they are more closer one can say.

>>2697253
not saying any empire is good though.

>>2697434
Are you antisemite or something?

>>2697601
kek.

>>2697301
>150 years of capitalists inventing
>50 years of capitalists implementing

>>2696627
Bug in the system
Bengal famine was basically because of filthy kulaks
Whilst the Irish famine is due to Irish resisting new farming methods, thus crop failure was only a hop skip and a jump away, but this time it was the Devils blight