• pipi1234@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    One reason I can think is we haven’t yet seen a working socialist society, which often fail for external reasons.

    For example, the socialist government in Cuba was severely undermined by the USA imposed blockade.

    A more recent example is Venezuela, while you can think what you want about its current government, I don’t think USA should interfere with any sovereign nation.

    There’s almost like a pattern, like someone, somewhere doesn’t like the idea of socialism to succeed.

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      15 days ago

      China needs Taiwan to fail because the Chinese Communist Party maintains that democracy is incompatible with the Chinese culture. Having a very successful Chinese democracy shows that Chinese culture is compatible with democracy.

      In a similar way, capitalists do everything they can to scuttle socialist countries, because a working socialist country would show that it was viable. Hence endless embargoes, wars, and a steady stream of propaganda. This was true for the entire life of the Soviet Union, and continues to this day for socialist countries.