Cuban life expectancy under Batista was below the US's. Cubans live longer than Americans now. Chinese advances are astonishing. Russia went from essentially 18th century technology under the Czars to beating the US into space. Spain's governing socialist party is doing interesting things. I'd say the record is mixed, and Orwell, a democ…
Cuban life expectancy under Batista was below the US's. Cubans live longer than Americans now. Chinese advances are astonishing. Russia went from essentially 18th century technology under the Czars to beating the US into space. Spain's governing socialist party is doing interesting things. I'd say the record is mixed, and Orwell, a democratic socialist, identified the problem with the failures: it's authoritarianism, not socialism.
Cuban life expectancy under Batista was below the US's. Cubans live longer than Americans now. Chinese advances are astonishing. Russia went from essentially 18th century technology under the Czars to beating the US into space. Spain's governing socialist party is doing interesting things. I'd say the record is mixed, and Orwell, a democratic socialist, identified the problem with the failures: it's authoritarianism, not socialism.