deathtoreddit to Ask Lemmygrad · 8 months agoWhy doesn't India, Iraq, and Mexico, during the Cold War not count as Actually Existing Socialism?message-squaremessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up18arrow-down1message-squareWhy doesn't India, Iraq, and Mexico, during the Cold War not count as Actually Existing Socialism?deathtoreddit to Ask Lemmygrad · 8 months agomessage-square3fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareCommissar of Antifalinkfedilinkarrow-up11·8 months agoNone of them had a dictatorship of the proletariat or worker-owned economy. India and Iraq (and presumably also Mexico) were all dominated by the national bourgeoisie and were just anti-imperialist capitalist states.
minus-squaredeathtoredditOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-28 months agoHow so? I don’t often hear a lot of information about they had a national bourgeoisie, beyond theory, tbh… I mean, Iraq here at least had the socialist-oriented Ba’ath party ruling over it…
None of them had a dictatorship of the proletariat or worker-owned economy. India and Iraq (and presumably also Mexico) were all dominated by the national bourgeoisie and were just anti-imperialist capitalist states.
How so? I don’t often hear a lot of information about they had a national bourgeoisie, beyond theory, tbh…
I mean, Iraq here at least had the socialist-oriented Ba’ath party ruling over it…