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Necronmon posted...

The fact that most functional democracy states can get the perks without all of those horrible broken phases says a lot to.

Just look at Cambodia...it destroyed itself and NEVER really recovered.

Yeah. Basically every country has improved it's quality of living in the last 100 years. Communism did not provide any shortcuts in this process aside from radical land reform. But, as an example, Russian serfs would have almost certainly been much better off if "land reform" meant breaking the power of the landowners and distributing the land as private property to the serfs who had worked it historically. Then the government could invest in mechanizing the agricultural sector to improve the efficiency of the independent farmers. During a decade of modernization, the amount of unneeded farm hands could have been hollistically moved into extraction industries or cities to continue industralization efforts without risking a massive famine.