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How many communist countries have you seen?
Probably not enough, care to share any countries I should look into
The PRC is a good place to start, considering it's on track to becoming the world's most developed country and advanced socialist state.
What? no! But Joe Rogan and the FBI told me China bad? But now you say China good?!?
China is a socialist country. Public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, mixed forms of ownership govern the small and medium firms while massive state owned enterprises form the backbone of the economy. The State is under the control of the working class, which results in over 90% approval rates.
We should absolutely learn from their successes in creating a society controlled by the working class and directed in its interests.
Listen man, just look into the histories of countries that have had communist revolutions, look at what changed after, and look at why they failed. Often times they improved the lives of the working class, and then were destroyed by capitalist interests. There’s outliers like Cambodias Khmer Rouge and Romanias Chowchesku (I’m not going to even try spelling his name correctly) but you have to remember that history and context matter, and that communism is still just an ideology that has differing effects based on execution and the external forces putting pressure on these countries. It was called the Cold War, not the Cold Everybody Try Shit and we will see what works. Capitalist interests had already been deeply entrenched in world economics and power before communism began to take any meaningful positions of power during the Industrial Revolution, and all of these contexts, interests, and events matter.
As I said such negative external and internal forces will always exist, if your ideology can't stand against it in practice then it only works in theory. I wish things were different, but I'm not gonna pretend all the answers lie in this sole other system, people need to learn what they can from communism and apply that to a different system that could stand a chance
In other words “no, I will not put in the effort to learn the history and nuance of the way our society works, I’d rather just repeat shallow propaganda I heard and declare myself king genius of alwaysrightville.” Got it.
Socialism (what you call communism) already stands firm, working in theory and in practice. If you're not familiar with the theory and haven't looked much into the practice, just adopting standard red scare views, then I don''t see why you think yourself fit to judge them.