> I think you underestimate the power of your government and the impact of economic sanctions.
I think you don't understand how the scientific method works.
Venezuela had sanctions removed, they still starved. North Korea trades directly with the massive economy of China, the people are still starving and poor.
The problem is communism and socialism, not sanctions. Stop being a stooge for dictators.
I think you have been propagandized by criminals. I don't blame you, I was the same.
Regarding starvation, it happened under capitalist, slavery-based and feudal regimes aswell. One recent example is how the very capitalistic UK engineered a terrible famine that nearly killed 200mio Indians. For most of the western world, Churchill was very much a saviour, but for Indians, he was a brutal dictator.
If you lived in a low-performing socialist country, I guess it's tough to blame you. But keep in mind that socialism, like any democratic experiment, is different based on the country's initial historic and material conditions.
One can pin point at China, a high performing democratic experiment and say they are doing fairly well, "despite" being a socialist Republic.
However I'm curious what you refer as "horrors" of communism.
Communism has more variables than central-planning vs market-economy: one-party, authoritarian, no private property, no political speech, nothing approaching civil rights, political executions...
- North Korea
- Cuba
Three communist and socialist countries with starving populations.
North Korea trades freely and shares a border with China. Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US.
We can now easily rule out sanctions as the cause of their woes so what is the other common factor between these countries?