When smug liberals talk about adults in the room that make the hard decisions and get shit done, this is the most colorful and upbeat way to show the privately contracted death squads, assassinations, and other skullduggery that the “shit done” actually is.
If Socialism worked, the Socialist countries could punch the US.
Imagine you’re playing a game of Monopoly, but you come in to it with half the normal amount of money, after the game has already gone on for half an hour.
What do you suppose your chances of winning are?
I’ll just pull myself up by my bootstraps! /s
Doesn’t this apply to both the US and socialist countries?
I guess I’m also not very clear what people mean when they say socialist country. Capitalist with good regulations? No money? Government owned businesses?
Doesn’t this apply to both the US and socialist countries?
Yes, but I think you’re hitting on the wrong point here. The point is that countries themselves cannot change their power overnight, nor their structure. Cuba cannot hope to punch at the US as the US is the global Imperialist Hegemon, and has been so for a century, even if it is steadily improving conditions for its own citizens over time.
I guess I’m also not very clear what people mean when they say socialist country. Capitalist with good regulations? No money? Government owned businesses?
You’re on a Marxist community. Socialism in Marxism refers to the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, ie shifting State Power from Bourgeois control to Proletarian control. An economically fully-Socialist country is going to be focused on central planning and collective ownership and direction of production, though Socialism itself is a transitional status to Communism eventually.
Socialism does work, why would you think AES could immediately fight the global Imperialist Hegemon immediately?
TIL the merit of a broad socioeconomic system is dependent upon if nations that adopt it can militarily defeat the 3rd largest country and government that has hundreds of years of industry and exploitating various groups of people beforehand
And those like you wonder why the surviving socialist countries were authoritarian and highly militarized…
