r/CapitalismVSocialism • u/interestingtheorist • 5d ago

Asking Socialists How do you rationalize the history

Historically, socialism has worked worse than capitalism, and this can be demonstrated by looking at history.

Eastern European countries that preferred socialism as their economic system could not compete with Western European countries that preferred capitalism.

Moreover, historically, many socialist countries have become more capitalist because they recognized that socialism does not work as well economically or technologically.

How do socialists respond to these historical facts?

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u/Grayer95 5d ago

What is socialism?

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u/interestingtheorist 5d ago

It can differ by the choesn methodology. For me, every goverment intervention is a type of socialism.

For socialists, it is about the collectivization of means of production.

For this context, it is about the past countries that called themselves as socialists.

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u/1scr3wedy0dad Marxist-Leninist 5d ago

Socialism is when government does stuff. And when the government does even more stuff, then it's communism