Who wants that? Communism was even dead in Russia, but has came back under Russian radicals. I think you are conflating things.
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Ummmm you should try talking to people in eastern Ukraine
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Do you know a lot of Americans that pine for that? I have literally never met anyone who wants that.
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Which just goes to show that the problem isn't being to the left or the right, but in accecpting dictatorships from either direction. As others have noted, there's never been a famine in a country with a democratic government.
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One of he things that bothers me the most about the WSJ's op-ed page is that way that they use Venezuela to relentlessly attack the idea of democracy, as if healthy democratic institutions *lead* to Venezuelas, not away from them.
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Few tricks are older or nastier than using the threat (or reality) of authoratarian dictatorship coming from one direction to impose it from the other. This is the fate of most revolutions, and the reason why most revolutions are bad.
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"Hi, we're quite happy with market-oriented economies and we see they work best when accompanied by healthy social safety nets, like Sweden." "You mean Venezuela?" "No, we mean what we said, Sweden." "Same socialist thing." "That's...what?" "Venazwedland is a commie prison."
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(Warning: Half baked idea) There might be a weird selection bias though - people who are open minded about other cultures (and wouldnt like a dictatorship) would likely go see a communist country, but people who would resonate with authoritarianism wouldnt?
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I wonder if I should just start all of my tweets with "warning half baked idea"
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Yes. As a son of Cuban expats, I cringed when people on the left paid homage to Castro when he died.
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I have this thing for Romania.
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The only one I’ve been to is Cuba, where it seems they traded it for...no economic power whatsoever. Worst of both worlds.
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The blockaid didn't help.
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It was a predictable geopolitical consequence that a wiser leader would have anticipated. If Castro had attempted diplomacy with the West instead of slaughtering his own people and attempting to assassinate ours, he might have created a better outcome for Cuba.
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I was fortunate enough to visit Estonia, which is one of the more free-market of the ex-SSR’s. It was definitely eye-opening to see how different hat culture was compared to my other international experience in which was living in a 3rd world country for 10 years.
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Never underestimate the resilience of a poverty tourist.
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