Were the socialist revolutions truly the way going forward for the countries that tried it?
China, Cuba, Russia, Vietnam etc. were the revolutions and anti-imperial dogmas truly the best way to develop these countries?
US, Western Europe and Japan were the big imperialistic countries and everyone else got scraps. There is a term called "New Industrialized countries", and its mostly US or NATO aimed aids at countries like South Korea, Taiwan, China (partly, I mean their capitalist restoration heavily did depend on US investment), Israel or the EU made investment into eastern european countries like Poland.
In general the socialist path meant: 1. very fast industrialization, often very brutal, in few decades. Capitalistic nations that are exploited by the west and did not have heavy aid like south korea, often take hundreds of years to reach high industrialization status 2. healthcare and education also benefited highly from socialist revolutions from the countries that did it.
Brazil went through slow and agonizing development without a socialist revolution and in the end of the day it compares somewhat to Russia. Which, at the end of the day, makes theír whole soviet period somewhat mute. I saw Russians comment that the Chinese path was superior, and they wish they should taken that and I agree.
US, Western Europe and Japan were the big imperialistic countries and everyone else got scraps. There is a term called "New Industrialized countries", and its mostly US or NATO aimed aids at countries like South Korea, Taiwan, China (partly, I mean their capitalist restoration heavily did depend on US investment), Israel or the EU made investment into eastern european countries like Poland.
In general the socialist path meant: 1. very fast industrialization, often very brutal, in few decades. Capitalistic nations that are exploited by the west and did not have heavy aid like south korea, often take hundreds of years to reach high industrialization status 2. healthcare and education also benefited highly from socialist revolutions from the countries that did it.
Brazil went through slow and agonizing development without a socialist revolution and in the end of the day it compares somewhat to Russia. Which, at the end of the day, makes theír whole soviet period somewhat mute. I saw Russians comment that the Chinese path was superior, and they wish they should taken that and I agree.
