Thread:Viet&Games/@comment-4425142-20170314065512/@comment-4425142-20170315172813

Kalašnjikov wrote: All forms of socialism are totalitarian/statist in nature That only applies to Marxism-Leninism and its variants (such as democratic centralism but I'll just call it pseudo-communism to distinguish from other socialist forms). Socialist democracy still exists but let's not get on that subject anyway since it's barely related.

Most countries that employs communism and pseudo-communism as their official ideology during Cold War are USSR allies that extends as far to countries like Iraq, Mali (while not communist but its political system at the time functions in a democratic centralist fashion, hence a pseudo-communist state) and Myanmar (called Burma at the time). Good luck when they erased their pseudo-Marxist acts at the end of Cold War it contributed to part of the reason why they are poor, since they relied on materialistic values over all else.