To this day, Cuba continues to provide universal healthcare and education for its citizens. Thus, Cuba has some of the highest healthcare and educational standards in Latin America.
Dissent is not tolerated. Cuba was forced to introduce free market reforms to help bolster economic prospects after the fall of its most valuable ally, the Soviet Union, and the tightening of the U. These reforms were accelerated in the late s and early s. The Cuban government even legalized private ownership of cellphones and computers. Cuba has also become less isolated as diplomatic ties with the European Union have been restored.
In , the U. In addition, rapprochement with the U. President Donald Trump in Trump reversed many of the measures introduced by his predecessor, Barack Obama that led to a thaw in relations between the U.
China is the largest communist country in the world. For decades following the establishment of communist rule in China, agricultural land was collectivized and all businesses were brought under state control. The economic policies of the communist government up until the s led to the deaths of tens of millions of Chinese citizens due to starvation, torture, forced labor, and suicide.
But in , Mao Zedong passed away and was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, who began instituting economic reforms. The result of these reforms was the rapid expansion of the Chinese economy. The country has all but abandoned the economic component of communist ideology. What has not been abandoned, however, is the repressive measures to control dissent that communist regimes are known for.
Despite China having become a vibrant, capitalist economic juggernaut, it is still regarded as a one-party dictatorship, where the Communist Party of China has a monopoly on power. Challenges to this monopoly are not allowed and are vigorously suppressed.
The media, including the internet, is heavily censored. In addition, membership in the Communist Party of China remains the ticket to career advancement for Chinese citizens.
Communist countries of the world. He was a mate of Marx, a writer, and a German who moved to Manchester to be a businessman. While there, he witnessed and wrote about the miserable life of the new urban working classes.
The squalor, the exploitation, the degradation he frowned upon all this. And Marx agreed. Marx was also a German, a journalist, and a troublemaker. So he moved to England and together they wrote their seminal book 'The Communist Manifesto' in Marx followed this up by going solo and having a hit with the 3-volume Das Kapital later on.
These are all in the public domain too, so you can find them online. These books are a bit of a drag but they are very much like watching the Lord of the Rings film series, while Hegel is like reading the whole book, plus the prequels and associated materials, in a different language.
These ideas were taken up by all manner of bearded and sometimes non-bearded men and women. The Paris Commune set up a short-lived socialist state lots of blood spilled , and as various workers' rights movements grew in power, gaining votes, suffrage, land rights.
And so on it looked as if the process was indeed developing as planned. Then Russia just decided to go full-Red and Lenin. And the lads mostly with beards, although Lenin shaved his for a bit while he smuggled himself from Finland to Russia dressed as a woman made lots of bold speeches and promises. They staged an initially-somewhat-bloodless revolution, then followed it up with an exceptional amount of blood some of it Royal. And then Thanks to the successes of that state many of which were real, many made up other countries decided to follow suit.
Building an urban proletariat who would then suffer under alienation and rise up to form the vanguard of a historically inevitable revolution They decided to skip all that and go straight from mostly being peasants to being communists, and shooting anyone who disagreed or tried to suggest other options. By the second half of the 20 th Century, a vast area of the world was painted red. From the iron curtain of Europe to the far east, down into South East Asia, and dotted across Africa.
Various liberation movements claimed socialism as an inspiration. But then it all came crashing down. And in a very short period of time, almost all of these states went defunct. They changed political direction entirely. Or ceased to exist. So, here we are today in the 21 st Century. And Jeremy Corbyn was probably not going to have the queen shot. Some countries, though, still raise the flag, pay their tribute to the bearded ones, and even invoke clever-sounding terms like dialectical materialism from time to time.
Rr those who know it will all come around again! Let's take a look at a list of socialist countries, and a list of communist countries - past and present. Ethiopia has been a monarchy, a communist country, a democracy all in the last few decades, things change! But although the last couple of presidents have made plenty of speeches about seizing control from plutocrats and handing it to the workers, plus nationalizing key industries, this is mainly seen by most people as just being governing rather than actual socialism.
Of course, there are many who see any government intervention as socialism, but it is not. Not many at all, there are basically just five countries in the world that still claim in some way to be Communist or Socialist, they are. They forced the Nationalist Party of who many of the red top-brass used to be members, things change!
Although, he was liked enough to have his portrait, and that of Engels, hung on Tiananmen gate for quite some years in the early days. They decided to skip ahead a few chapters in the Communist Manifesto. Basically just to go straight to the conclusion. Many of whom are simply propped up in this way. Plus a often-vibrant and somewhat unrestrained form of hyper-capitalism. Those who do this best are usually members of the Communist Party though. So perhaps under some way of looking at it this makes them all Communists?
The last remaining communist country in SE Asia. A place that used to be a sea of red apart from Thailand, which stayed royal throughout. Laos is a country with a one-party system, strong for which read; intolerant of alternative views government, state ownership of key industries, and so on. Still, it is hard to go to Laos and see it as particularly communist when most people seem to work in small businesses, own land at least de facto , and not really be that politically engaged.
Maybe it is a kind of soft stealth socialism being built? There was collectivization of agriculture in the country in the early days. So, if you travel to Laos do! Easier to find the less-living kind still in the monuments and statues of eastern Europe and former-USSR.
Vietnam also has as its most famous person of all time Ho Chi Minh, communist leader, and icon of a million t-shirts, so giving up on the legacy of Uncle Ho would be a tough one to do entirely. When you reach out to them, you will need the page title, URL, and the date you accessed the resource. If a media asset is downloadable, a download button appears in the corner of the media viewer.
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