EyelessInGaza
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Communism failed against capitalism, plain and simple. The reforms came too late where as China reformed much earlier to a hybrid capitalistic model.
The state cannot be relied on to solely effectively allocate resources of economy/society. Without private markets and financial incentive to citizens you get economic stagnation and rampant corruption. Elites in Soviet Union were becoming extremely wealthy while the average worker starved and had no economic income mobility.
It is one reason why Iran suffers so much, while overall Iran is a socialist economy, the sanctions busting regime is in effect a derivative form of communism where key government players supply the market with the necessary goods to keep society functioning. While noble on the surface these leads to corruption and inefficiencies (see Babak Zanjani oil scandal as an example)
The issue is when you build your entire system on ideology (Communism, Facism, Populism, Theocracy) then as generations pass naturally society evolves and moderates and thinking changes. Thus at the end of the day the inner workings of your society and economy needs to be grounded in sound reasoning or else you collapse fairly quickly once the ideological flame burns out.
But make no mistake, ideology cannot replace a strong market oriented economy. It can merely mask the efficiencies for a period of time.
The end road of a dead ideology with no economic basis is right in front of your eyes: North Korea and Cuba.
Good analysis. More people here need to apply it to the last type of ruling dispensations - theocracies.
I don’t care what religion you represent, if you apply it to running a state, you will get neither a popular religion nor even a remotely efficient state.
And as for the economy, you will get businessmen where your priests should be, and priests masquerading as businessmen.






