Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union
by D_Alex on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @04:35AM
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That's a fair point.
On reflection, whether communism holds extra appeal in poor countries, or whether it was an accident of history that *rich* capitalist countries faced off against poor communist countries, communism's chances were kind of hamstrung by this enmity. The playing field was uneven.
So which system is truly better at lifting people out of poverty, all other things being equal, remains uncertain.
Communist countries wanted to export communism, maybe for all the good and bad reasons democratic countries want to export democracy. However there were plenty of people in the west that wanted their country to become communist, especially up to the 80s. So the enmity against all the communist world was also a matter of internal affairs, to contain internal opposition.