• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      3 months ago

      That reaaaaally depends on how you’d measure “success”. The millions of de-facto-slaves would probably not agree.

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      3 months ago

      Probably more fascist than communist these days. My actual favourite theory though is that there are way more important things happening under the hood of nations, and whether they’re called communist or democratic or whatever is just a veneer.

      James A. Robinson’s book Why Nations Fail for instance provides an interesting alternative way to look at this, that goes beneath the surface.