Nah we Westerners don't fetishisize marginality and misery. Wtf you talking about bro? Vietnam is cooler because they had to have more bombs dropped on them n their neighbors than the entirety of WW2 and had to deal with subjugation to competing imperialist interests throughout their existence.
I will say that China has been a shitty neighbor in the past, especially when Pol Pot was around. You can criticize on those grounds, but economically nah. People can be as ideologically pure as they want, but I imagine being thrust in charge of managing an entire economy would be very sobering
Yeah North Korea is the only midway developed country to not be a part of the WTO and it's Cuba and DPRK who aren't members of the world bank.
This means being isolated by the rest of the world by default to a comparable way to counties under US sanctions are.
It's simply just easier to give into the washington consensus than to try and forge your own path. The only reason China, has been able to forge their own path is because of their size. This said, if you're anywhere touching the DC consensus you're no longer practicing anything relating to socialism.
Nah we Westerners don't fetishisize marginality and misery. Wtf you talking about bro? Vietnam is cooler because they had to have more bombs dropped on them n their neighbors than the entirety of WW2 and had to deal with subjugation to competing imperialist interests throughout their existence.
I will say that China has been a shitty neighbor in the past, especially when Pol Pot was around. You can criticize on those grounds, but economically nah. People can be as ideologically pure as they want, but I imagine being thrust in charge of managing an entire economy would be very sobering
Yeah North Korea is the only midway developed country to not be a part of the WTO and it's Cuba and DPRK who aren't members of the world bank.
This means being isolated by the rest of the world by default to a comparable way to counties under US sanctions are.
It's simply just easier to give into the washington consensus than to try and forge your own path. The only reason China, has been able to forge their own path is because of their size. This said, if you're anywhere touching the DC consensus you're no longer practicing anything relating to socialism.