Redalgo
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« on: February 10, 2012, 02:29:34 PM » |
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« edited: February 10, 2012, 02:31:37 PM by Redalgo »
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Leninism and its ideological off-shoots never took a country beyond state socialism; over the course of several decades Cuba has not made much headway - nor do I expect it will ever - in dismantling the state and achieving a communist society; the PRC and Vietnam dabble in policies which incline me to deem their economies socialist / neo-mercantilist hybrids that stray from focusing on communist goals; and in at least some respects, parts of the First World got a lot closer to classlessness than in the Second.
I do not know enough about its history to claim if it is a genuine example - perhaps it was another deformed system under a veneer of propaganda - but from what little I know right now I would say the closest thing to a successful communist country the world has had in the last few centuries is the anarchist, Makhnovist "Free Territory" in what is now an eastern chunk of Ukraine. Ironically, it was crushed after a short period of time by the Soviets.
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