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>>13077956
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>>12684403
>seems to me that Capitalist nations have and are doing substantially better than those failed Socialist/Communist/Marxist nations did
Sure if you compare the USA in 1985 to USSR the same year, the USA did a lot better, if you ignore stuff like unemployment, homelessness and drug abuse. But it isn't like this was an equal race. In 1945 USSR and eastern Europe were in ruins after ww2, while the USA profited massively from the war (not because they were "evil, cynic cappies", but simply because of the geopolitical advantages). East germany was similarly in a worse position than west germany. It is really hard to make accurate comparisons between countries like that, and it is just as easy to make comparisons that makes the socialist countries seem favorable, for instance has Cuba fared better than most other Caribbean islands like Haiti ever since the revolution, Burkina Faso under Sankara did way better than Niger or Somalia has ever done, and so on.

>>10677554
sage because this is a shit thread on the wrong board