There have been numerous surveys in various Eastern European countries, even today a majority of people would prefer the political systems before '89. The GDR

There have been numerous surveys in various Eastern European countries, even today a majority of people would prefer the political systems before '89. The GDR was under constant attack from capitalist countries, I don't think it's that unusual for a country to track and imprison foreign spies and local collaborators and fascists. The current capitalist countries imprison lots of people for political reasons too. The Marxist labour theory of value has been proven statistically in several ways, it's not disputed even by right-wing economists. Central planning also is used by capitalists to avoid the inefficiencies of markets. The major missing thing is that we live and work under the dictatorship of capitalists, with little to no democratic control for the workers. No poor under-industrialised country has yet to achieve prosperity under capitalism. Yet the improvements with socialism are quite clear in the past (https://mobile.twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1136693839526223872 https://mobile.twitter.com/isgoodrum/status/1136693839526223...) and nowadays with China, Vietnam and Cuba.