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> China is the only kind-of successful one, but at the cost of rivers of blood, political prisoners.

china actually "secretly" (or openly secretly) adopted capitalist ideals for it's planned economy (such as opening up foreign investments and exports of cheap labour) - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping (and slightly better article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_charact...). These reforms have single-handedly made china the world's 2nd biggest, economy after the US.

Venezuela doesn't have the same level of labour exporting, and relied on natural resources, and even actively nationalized private businesses (against the interests of foreign investors). Obviously they are going to stop getting investment, and as oil prices tanked, their socialist policies (or, bribery of the voters with "free" stuff) can't be kept up.



Actually, it was Zhao Ziyang’s credit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang


Please do not mix communist with socialist. Communist is a political party like the Republicans and Democrats parties we have here in the US.

China has moved away from the socialist economic models for 4 decades. They thrive because they have capitalist/capitalism model.




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