This is a question I’ve been meaning to ask for a very long time.
Candidates:
- Syria (ruled by Assad of the Ba’athist party, which seems to be a form of Arab Socialism)
- Nicaragua (ruled by a Socialist party, surprised they haven’t went the China route already… but then again they’re within the close proximity of Usonia, so I guess it makes sense)
- Nepal (So many Communist Parties + Already ruled by one, it would be a huge shame if it doesn’t turn Socialist or go that route)
There are likely other countries too that has the potential to turn Socialist/Leftist, like Peru; but I don’t know much about them so I didn’t put them in there. Sorry about that. But anyway, which country do you think will be the next/Sixth AES country?
Socialism originally refer to the “dictatorship of the proletariat” which means “government by the working class” before the Liberal redefinition of dictatorship. In this case, the pursue of profit and privatization can be acceptable on some context, material condition, or economic stage. If the private sector has not been taken over by a few property owning elites that rigged market competition and dictate that the people should be punished and rewarded according to their services to the few free riding Capitalists, then the private sector could be tolerated in the early stage of economic development to Socialism. Nationalization should occur in the later stage of Capitalism when the economy became dominanted by an uncompetitive oligarch or monopoly.