> India's problem was never socialism vs capitalism. India's fundamental problem is systemic corruption and heavy bureaucracy. Socialism, in the context of pov

> India's problem was never socialism vs capitalism. India's fundamental problem is systemic corruption and heavy bureaucracy. Socialism, in the context of poverty, inherently leads to corruption. This is something that's hard to understand for people who've only ever seen socialism and communism in countries that are already quite wealthy (e.g. Western Europe). I say this as someone who is from West Bengal, which has had the world's longest-serving, democratically-elected Communist government.