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No? Mao spent decades at war in some of the most brutal conditions possible, then successfully ended regular famine in China forever.
And Lincoln and the rest of his elites were starving and abstaining from going to dances and plays while the newly freed slaves starved were they? https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jun/16/slavery-starvation-civil-war