"Socialism is attractive to countries that have escaped formal colonization and which remained largely separate from the world economy, like Afghanistan and Ethiopia. The second group are the countries that struggle against colonialism and have gained national liberation, like Angola, Mozambique and other Portuguese colonies. Socialist ideas became popular also in Latin America and Caribbean such as Cuba and Nicaragua."
"The socialist model of development, not just in Russia and China, but also elsewhere in the world, is in danger of appearing an unattractive and unviable model with no future."
My response to this statement is, "Why is socialism seen as unattractive?" It has clearly been attractive to developing countries and offers people the hope of a better more equal life. Though it has proved disastrous in the USSR, China was successful in adopting socialist ideas into their trade and has grown 10% per annum, according to the text. I think socialism is the other option besides capitalism for growing countries. Capitalism can be seen
"One approach of socialism is to focus on industrial capitalism to help underdeveloped countries gain independence from developed capitalist systems."
Can this really be called socialism then? Is this concept just using several points of socialism to improve society? Or, was socialism intended to help underdeveloped countries gain independence in the first place? There are so many motives behind 'socialism' good and bad. I think people meant for it to be good, and to gain independence however it has turned into something very negative after people have used it in the wrong way... and the perfect 'socialist' nation can never be achieved.
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