I can’t think of any successful communist countries. They’ve all quickly devolved into totalitarian regimes, or else they’ve had to adopt a capitalist economy because a communist economy just didn’t work.
This why the right conflates socialism with communism, because they don’t want to acknowledge that northern Europe is absolutely crushing it in both wealth and services.
Northern Europe also depends heavily on Unequal Exchange, and has seen sliding safety nets. They are happiest because they are generally the wealthiest, and that wealth must be seen in the international context, as they do not practice Autarky.
Orrr the US overthrows their government and replaces them with a fascist regime or monarchy whenever there’s even a hint of socialism. Latin America, Asia, post-ww2 Europe… they have a tendency to do that a lot.
The only ones we know of are all authoritarian regimes because they’re the only ones which actually have enough resistanace from outside interference to not fall victim to the USA’s shenanigans. Democracies are extremely vulnerable to outside influence / bad actors, and when you have the most powerful country in the world working to destroy your democratic government, without the centralization to resist that it’s no use fighting back. We created this problem.
I can’t think of any successful communist countries. They’ve all quickly devolved into totalitarian regimes, or else they’ve had to adopt a capitalist economy because a communist economy just didn’t work.
This why the right conflates socialism with communism, because they don’t want to acknowledge that northern Europe is absolutely crushing it in both wealth and services.
I wish we made decisions based on happiness levels rather than GDP.
These countries are obviously doing something right and the rest of the world should take notes from them: https://worldhappiness.report/news/happiest-countries-prove-resilient-despite-overlapping-crises/
I cannot believe this report, because Bhutan isn’t on top.
No country in Europe is even close to the original definition of socialism. Having public health care is not socialism.
Northern Europe also depends heavily on Unequal Exchange, and has seen sliding safety nets. They are happiest because they are generally the wealthiest, and that wealth must be seen in the international context, as they do not practice Autarky.
there is no such thing as a communist country: communism is stateless
Orrr the US overthrows their government and replaces them with a fascist regime or monarchy whenever there’s even a hint of socialism. Latin America, Asia, post-ww2 Europe… they have a tendency to do that a lot.
The only ones we know of are all authoritarian regimes because they’re the only ones which actually have enough resistanace from outside interference to not fall victim to the USA’s shenanigans. Democracies are extremely vulnerable to outside influence / bad actors, and when you have the most powerful country in the world working to destroy your democratic government, without the centralization to resist that it’s no use fighting back. We created this problem.