There are 5 socialist countries I know of: Cuba, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, and China...

So far, from what I've heard, there are 2 popular presuppositions to take note of whether such states are socialist:

  1. Solidified governmental control and regulation, and thus influence by the Democratic Leadership of the Proletariat.

  2. Predominance of state ownership, large public economic sector (ideally >50% of the GDP) and wide social network to support the masses of peasants and proletarians

(Economic base to the cultural superstructure and all that)

With this in mind, how can you prove this is such the case, in practice, for the following countries?

Edit: I know every country doesn't have exactly socialism a la Cuba or DPRK (read more on my addendum)

I just want evidence that there are systematic upholding of progressive policies and models within these countries.

I think these are significant to upholding the democratic dictatorship of the proletariat, economically and politically here, relating to my 2 main points, from experience.

Like for example, the post-Cold War legacy of Eastern Europe left behind high rates of self home-ownership...

From at least 76% in Slovenia, of the former Socialist Republics of Yugoslavia, to over 95% in Romania.

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

  • spectre [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Personally, I would say that the listed countries' politics align more with mine than the one that I'm a citizen of, to varying extents. I don't exactly care to cleanly define them as "socialist" (but we could talk about the extent to which they represent the interests of the global socialist movement if desired, of course), it's honestly not that improtant to me.

    If someone is engaging in a genuine discussion, then I would extend your statement to include "because a project is nominally socialist, it is not, in fact free of errors, problems, or mistakes". If it's just a random "[country] isn't socialist" then it'll just be met with a "stfu liberal"