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They’re not examples of success but they are examples of hope and of what people were willing to fight for to control their own destinies. Understanding why they failed however requires an understanding of the countries who intervened to prevent their success
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I view them more as cautionary tales. Yeah, it's good for people to fight to control their destinies. But the relationship between revolutionary energy and successful reform efforts is a complex and uncertain one.
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It’s very complex and uncertain. It’s also been subject to brutal repression and military intervention.
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Indeed. And, usually, has dealt out the same.
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But no one holds even a candle to us
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That's just absolutely and totally false. Most of those regimes were far worse than us.
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How to synthesize decades of U.S. foreign policy...Latin America alone is a potent enough example. Look at all our military and economic interventions there. And then look at where all those terrible regimes got their support
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We've definitely done our share of nasty stuff, but there's really no comparison to, say, Russia, or China under Mao.
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I don't think it's really possible to evaluate the effectiveness of any socialist state that existed while the single most powerful country to have ever existed (the US) was actively working to undermine any nation deemed socialist/communist, while subsidizing capitalist ones.
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