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.

Most countries that employs a certain form of socialism and pseudo-communism during Cold War are USSR allies that extends as far to countries like Mali (while not communist but its political system at the time functions in a democratic centralist fashion) and Iraq. 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.