Capitalism is very inefficient system, so they needed 30 years to reach the outside economic stats like real GDP from before the fall. And i can just guess it is still not real because it includes bubbles which didn’t exist in socialism, so they couldn’t really.
And they of course did not bother trying because some of the most important for socialism things, like equality, education, healthcare etc etc aren’t on capitalist checklist at all, so they never went back and in fact even worsened in that 30 years.
Couldn’t or haven’t bothered trying?
Both.
Capitalism is very inefficient system, so they needed 30 years to reach the outside economic stats like real GDP from before the fall. And i can just guess it is still not real because it includes bubbles which didn’t exist in socialism, so they couldn’t really.
And they of course did not bother trying because some of the most important for socialism things, like equality, education, healthcare etc etc aren’t on capitalist checklist at all, so they never went back and in fact even worsened in that 30 years.