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The_Creep_2020 posted...

How many of those work in a first world country?

well some of them (such as feudalism) were pre-capitalist.

but your question is flawed: "first world" refers to allies of the US during the Cold War, so of course any "first world country" is going to have capitalism as its economic system.

if we instead use "first world" to mean "economically developed", then it's still a flawed question: wealthy countries became wealthy by stealing from other countries. "first world" countries in this sense are generally either colonizing powers (Britain, France, Belgium, now the US) or countries that were colonized and nearly eradicated the indigenous population (Canada, Australia, the US initially).

now, bear this in mind, and consider the fact that these countries (particularly the US) have done everything in their power (up to and including funding fascist militia groups and killing democratically elected leaders) to prevent any countries from implementing a socialist state. do you think it might be unfair to restrict the question to whether or not such systems "work", effectively blaming the failure of socialist countries on those country's internal politics?

(edited for clarity)

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