>>23825509Of course it “failed every time.”
That’s what happens when you define failure as “didn’t turn into a rich Western liberal democracy while under sanctions, sabotage, embargoes, coups, proxy wars, and constant existential threat.”
Funny how capitalism gets infinite retries, rebrands its crashes as “cycles,” and calls its atrocities “externalities,” while socialism gets one bad rollout in a war ruined agrarian country and is declared metaphysically impossible forever.
If communism “failed,” it failed in the same sense Belarus “failed”: reality did not conform to a meme someone wanted very badly to be true.
But sure, repeat the line again. Repetition has always been the strongest argument