@Doctor Anon

Get the Ford or Stalag interpretation.

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@TheIntCarl no

Well this says something about the people here 🤔

@Da_Fish Dude that isn't even the Entire world. That thing leaves out Iran, Venezuela, South Korea, and some middle eastern countries that were effected by communism / Socialism

@Milk That they're smart

It also includes numerous states that were hardly Marxist-Leninist/Maoist and only claimed to be for communist support.

It's also anachronistic.

The only communist states were pretty much the USSR/Warsaw Pact and China.

North Korea for example distanced itself significantly from communism immediately after the Cold War and officially renounced it a few years ago, Castro was not a communist until he knew he could get gibs, and Savimbi was trained by China as a Maoist insurrectionist before he thought it was more profitable to fight communists.

@Doctor Anon ur gay

Vietnam was only "communist" for the sake of nationalism, with the backdrop of the French colonization. Ho Chi Minh did the same thing Castro did.

The Communist Party in Vietnam today is a nationalist party

They also started economic reforms in the 80s

Cuba has been liberalizing their economy for two decades now, gradually abandoning communist ideology.

China did the same thing under Deng.

But Cuba isn't going to say they aren't communist for much the same reason that China doesn't.

@Doctor Anon When you go to Africa, you expect to see Africans. When you go to Asia, you expect to see Asians. And when you go to Europe, You should expect to see Europeans.

white juche when?

@Mute Soul eyyy

@Mute Soul rip

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unfortunately Cuba doesn't have a +1 billion population to exploit in factories

The main thing Cuba imports is food and medicine and they have not enough of either.

And they trade plenty with China so I would say that yes, they do in fact have a 1+ billion population to exploit in factories.

Third worldism is kind of a meme scapegoat by the way.

Ancap is better

Wait wait that'you mean with all of this?
What I said was they don't have enough population themselves to take off through abundant and cheap labor like China did
Never talked about if they were self reliant or not lol

Especially from a utilitarian standpoint

Yeah but population doesn't matter at all. There's domestic demand and domestic supply, if your economy is inefficient like Cuba's you will fail.

Population is completely out if the question and only affects the overall GDP, not the GDP per capita at least not superficially.

All you have to do is look at India compared to Denmark to see this.

@εïз irma εïз Nigeria v Norway

Literally any LDC with overurbanization vs. any developed economy.

Plenty of flexibility.

Monaco vs Kenya

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