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> And in which of the world's 200 countries has socialism yielded (1)
> democracy and/or (2) prosperity?
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None of them had a chance yet to establish socialism
in a reasonable literate place to start with with reasonable
economic base. The inadequate initial conditions caused
the lack of democracy which made success more or less impossible.
Which doesn't mean that with the right conditions it wouldn't work.
Capitalism couldn't exist for a good few thousand years,
until the new geographical discoveries, new technologies etc.
gave for it the right start up.
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