Don’t the China, Cuba, DPRK, Laos, USSR, and Vietnam count? They didn’t achieve communism, but they pursue(d) it. I don’t think it’s fair to attribute their success to capitalism.
They did not achieve it so we cannot know if it can work because no one has gotten that far.
China, Vietnam and to a lesser extent Laos improved economically by pursuing private international trade. That isn’t because of their attempt at communism it is because they moved further away from it.
The USSR went bankrupt. This is largely due to corruption and a series of incredibly stupid moves by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s. Had he not loosened the reigns to the degree he did the USSR might still be functioning and millions who suffered after the collapse might never have had to face that. Neither communism nor capitalism crushed them rather bad economic advice did.
is DPRK communist? I would not think so given the incredibly strong authoritarian state with a hereditary leadership whose Juche ideology is closer to religion than philosophy. If you consider them communist then it is an abject failure there.
Don’t the China, Cuba, DPRK, Laos, USSR, and Vietnam count? They didn’t achieve communism, but they pursue(d) it. I don’t think it’s fair to attribute their success to capitalism.
They did not achieve it so we cannot know if it can work because no one has gotten that far.
China, Vietnam and to a lesser extent Laos improved economically by pursuing private international trade. That isn’t because of their attempt at communism it is because they moved further away from it.
The USSR went bankrupt. This is largely due to corruption and a series of incredibly stupid moves by Gorbachev in the mid-1980s. Had he not loosened the reigns to the degree he did the USSR might still be functioning and millions who suffered after the collapse might never have had to face that. Neither communism nor capitalism crushed them rather bad economic advice did.
is DPRK communist? I would not think so given the incredibly strong authoritarian state with a hereditary leadership whose Juche ideology is closer to religion than philosophy. If you consider them communist then it is an abject failure there.