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Algeria, Bangladesh, Guyana, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Angola, Barbados, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mex

Algeria, Bangladesh, Guyana, India, Nepal, Nicaragua, Portugal, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Angola, Barbados, Congo, Ecuador, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritius, Mozambique, Mexico, Namibia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Uruguay, and Zambia

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago
The economies of those countries doesn't disagree with my point. While most of those haven't committed any atrocities, people have died due to the poverty socialism creates. It's only a matter of time until the regimes in power are questioned and more blood is shed. Ideally you want democracy (for freedom) and capitalism (for money). If you don't have capitalism, you will crumble, China found that out the hard way and corrected itself (though never added the democracy part). Keep in mind, poverty kills people too. Most of the countries you listed are extremely poor. India who has been practicing socialism since '47 has the largest slums in the world.
- Dylan16807 7y ago
  The problem is the regimes, not the socialism. Bad leaders with total power will often commit atrocities, even if they embrace capitalistic money-making.
  - valuearb 7y ago
    Authoritarian regimes are a common by product of socialism
  - ChainOfFools 7y ago
    the problem is the impossible expectation for an entire society to change its fundamental assumptions about how to route value through itself,in a radical way, and within the space of a few years. This virtually guarantees a dictatorship (and usually a personality cult, whether forced or organically developedl) and all the negatives that accompany one.
- throwawaysoc2 7y ago
  To create your list you just grabbed a bunch of countries that claimed they were socialist/communist (some of whom weren't and didn't claim to be such as Rwanda). The above is a list of countries that claim to be socialist or are run by a socialist party that hadn't committed any atrocities. It's unreasonable to discount the above list because "it's only a matter of time until ... more blood is shed" because you can't predict the future.
magoghm 7y ago
Mexico is definitively not a communist or socialist country. Although it might be a little to the "left" of the US, it would be considered a capitalistic country in most of Europe.

s_y_n_t_a_x 7y ago

The economies of those countries doesn't disagree with my point. While most of those haven't committed any atrocities, people have died due to the poverty socialism creates. It's only a matter of time until the regimes in power are questioned and more blood is shed. Ideally you want democracy (for freedom) and capitalism (for money). If you don't have capitalism, you will crumble, China found that out the hard way and corrected itself (though never added the democracy part). Keep in mind, poverty kills people too. Most of the countries you listed are extremely poor. India who has been practicing socialism since '47 has the largest slums in the world.

Dylan16807 7y ago
The problem is the regimes, not the socialism. Bad leaders with total power will often commit atrocities, even if they embrace capitalistic money-making.
- valuearb 7y ago
  Authoritarian regimes are a common by product of socialism
- ChainOfFools 7y ago
  the problem is the impossible expectation for an entire society to change its fundamental assumptions about how to route value through itself,in a radical way, and within the space of a few years. This virtually guarantees a dictatorship (and usually a personality cult, whether forced or organically developedl) and all the negatives that accompany one.
throwawaysoc2 7y ago
To create your list you just grabbed a bunch of countries that claimed they were socialist/communist (some of whom weren't and didn't claim to be such as Rwanda). The above is a list of countries that claim to be socialist or are run by a socialist party that hadn't committed any atrocities. It's unreasonable to discount the above list because "it's only a matter of time until ... more blood is shed" because you can't predict the future.

magoghm 7y ago

Mexico is definitively not a communist or socialist country. Although it might be a little to the "left" of the US, it would be considered a capitalistic country in most of Europe.