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What's really amazing is that we could have done nothing, and it still would have failed eventually. There aren't any communist regimes that have been truly suc
by darksaints 5y ago
What's really amazing is that we could have done nothing, and it still would have failed eventually. There aren't any communist regimes that have been truly successful. The Soviets succeeded in industrialization, but then ate itself from within. The Chinese succeeded in industrialization, but only after transitioning away from maoist communism and more towards state capitalism. Everything else basically failed outright.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The Chinese succeeded in industrialization, but only after transitioning away from maoist communism and more towards state capitalism. Leninism and all its descendants, including Maoism, are, ab initio, state capitalism. What the CCP moved toward is more of xenophobic totalitarian corporatism than state capitalism; essentially fascism without, or at least with less, overt expansionism.
- darksaints 5y agoI guess I can see that, but whatever it was, it wasn't communism.