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The success of capitalism in those places is it's ability to crush socialist movements before they have a chance to work and offload production on their peasant class.
Socialism has never worked because capital has never allowed it. or more correctly socialism has never been allowed to continue working.
it's why America is still so butthurt over Cuba.
Fidel pisses me off so much. He achieved amazing things in the name of prosperity for all the people, then went and killed or imprisoned political opponents and LGBT.
However the continued sanctions against Cuba are blatantly in place to make sure socialism doesn't "work".
Literally. The only reason Cuba hasn't worked as well as it could is because the US has done as much as it possibly can to quash it because Cuba's success doesn't align with the propaganda the US is pushing. Can't have the poors finding out that socialism could work...
Socialism has never worked because dictators and authoritarians take control. It has weak protections against authoritarians, or authoritarians use socialism as a carrot to entice the masses and never delivering on their promise. Same with communism.