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This is a trick question, the real answer is that there weren’t real communist countries
That's true.
No true communists
It's the final refuge for tankies. That and the old "social democracy only works by exploiting the global south" canard.
Yeah, I could see finding this unconvincing if you haven't read theory, history, or were just cool with benefiting from imperialism