I've been speaking with other more informed communists and they've told me that none actually exist. Is this true?
China, Laos, and Vietnam: now notoriously capitalists. Workers work 12+ hours with no protection in horrible factory conditions. Suicide rates are so high that suicide nets are installed. The air is so polluted millions die from lung cancer, especially factory workers w/out basic masks. Corporations dominate
North Korea: Undemocratically ruled by the Kim dynasty. Jong un indulges lavishly at the expense of his citizens, ordering millions in fine wine and trips from Denis Rodman. They might be the most socialist though, as Juche seems to otherwise be democratic.
Cuba: Sanctions have taken a massive toll, but even taking that into account the country still has its own problems. They have massive food shortages and inventory probs and aren't self sufficient after 60+ years. Why couldn't they've use machinery imported from the Soviet Union to develop their agriculture and fishery? The Soviets supported them heavily. They seem to be incredibly mismanaged or corrupt
The Zapstist "Caracoles" are societies that live under their own goberment, based on the ideas of the EZLN, the bast mayority of them are located in the state of Chiapas, in the south of México
they just dissolved
Wait the Zapatistas dissolved???
yeah, like yesterday, citing a mysterious uptick in gang violence
so basically the CIA used drug cartels to kill the Zapatistas
i thought it was just some of their autonomous municipalities, not the entire organisation or did i misunderstand the news?
Its the whole area, but I don't expect them to be gone, they are definitely regrouping, but I don't expect their enemies to be passive at this time.
god, the second global war on socialism is fucking depressing
yeah
From what I have seen, what has been dissolved are the JBG and the MAREZ, which are the civil arm of the EZLN, the "caracoles" and the militar arm of the EZLN have not dissolved and will not do so, but they are closed to the outside, everything seems to be part of the fight against the cartels and for the autonomy of the Zapatistas territories, I would not be surprised to see the restructuring of their civil structure in order to face the threat of the cartels, or, in a slightly more radical scenario, the restructuring along with a new call for uprising against the violence of the cartels and the Mexican state and for the self-defense of the Zapatistas territories in the coming months since it is had make clear that this decision is already several years in the making.
Extremely based.