This is always such a stupid argument. China (criticize if you want, hell it might even be revisionist, it's still socialist) took 50 years to nearly catch up to the US which had 500 years of brutal exploitation behind it. China has even surpassed the UK, which undoubtedly killed more people than either the US or China. Similarly the Soviet Union was able to go from a failing backwater to the second strongest state in the world in 30 years. Cuba and Vietnam are both doing excellent for their size and regions and if you compared their economic growths to countries that remained "capitalist" or rather victims of imperialism, it is obvious which model is superior.
if you compared their economic growths to countries that remained “capitalist” or rather victims of imperialism, it is obvious which model is superior.
The exceptions being the regions the USA needed to build up as bulwarks against communism: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, West Germany, etc.
This is always such a stupid argument. China (criticize if you want, hell it might even be revisionist, it's still socialist) took 50 years to nearly catch up to the US which had 500 years of brutal exploitation behind it. China has even surpassed the UK, which undoubtedly killed more people than either the US or China. Similarly the Soviet Union was able to go from a failing backwater to the second strongest state in the world in 30 years. Cuba and Vietnam are both doing excellent for their size and regions and if you compared their economic growths to countries that remained "capitalist" or rather victims of imperialism, it is obvious which model is superior.
The exceptions being the regions the USA needed to build up as bulwarks against communism: South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, West Germany, etc.