RealAssHistoryHours

The fucking weird thing about Lysenkoism was that it was ridiculous and unscientific, but it never precipitated a catastrophic failure. In fact the years of Lysenkoism saw productive increases, which just goes to show how extremely far behind the starting point of the Soviet Union was. They could adopt and enforce statewide pseudoscience and still do better than they were.

Yeah say what you will, but dialectical materialism at worst tolerates pseudo-science such as Lysenkoism, but it never allowed for the wholesale adoption of social darwinism and eugenics that capitalist nations with no coherent philosophy of science had informing their murderous and genocidal policy.