Resources and cheap labor. It helps when a country is devastated by American bombers and crippled demographically as a result.
Why does every gommie state eventually liberalize its economy?
Jordan Smith
William Collins
Because even the most dogmatic MLs eventually realize that command economies are less efficient than market economies.
Jayden Cox
Except that isn't true.
Ayden Nguyen
It objectively is: scholar.harvard.edu
Aiden Carter
What said, huge amounts of pressure.
Threats of war, sanctions, often outright blockades of your economy, the constant threat of assassionation, sabotage and other forms of espionage, so on and so forth. Back down, begin to let porky in, and all that goes away and the West treats you as the great savior of your country to boot.
Wyatt Bailey
Countless tons of stuff is thrown out every day simply because no one can afford to buy it. Markets are anything but efficient.
Wyatt Edwards
Ironic, USSR economy became least efficient with free market reforms.
Colton Hill
For a certain value of "efficient", which in bourgeois economic terms is just a euphemism for "profitability".
Colton Parker
They are people who think too far ahead of their time.
Gabriel James
That's what utopianism is.
t. Marx