Article discreditng the thesis that Mao "killed millions of people" in The Great Leap

[Jester]

So, is communism inevitable? Not by any means. But it is necessary? I have absolutely no reason to believe otherwise.

So, the meaning of "historically necessary" here is not a claim about whether communism will or will not come to pass, but a claim along the lines of "communism is necessary to rescue humanity from the abyss"?

-Jester