Which Countries Are Still Truly Communist?

Which countries are the only countries left that are still communist?

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[薇尔莉特伊芙加登-ci]

Democracy is not the opposite of communism, the opposite of communism is capitalism.

[godfreypoon]

I studied communism in school...


Got top Marx.

[monchomendez-rivas]

Democratic is not opposite communism, you should’ve used capitalism not democratic when doing the Vietnam part.

[MidgeCat]

2:46 - South Vietnam wasn't democratic, it was an oppressive dictatorship and is what partially led to it's downfall

[stephenwells]

"Which countries are still truly communist?"

Answer: None. There has never been a nation which truly lived up to communist ideals and probably never will be.

[hahaperish]

The way he pronounces Laos makes me cringe SO bad

[billthegamer]

The picture of Kim jong ur on the thumbnail lol

[fathertedczynski]

None of these are Communist, they're (just about) Socialist for the reasons described. Marx's idea was that Socialism requires a central government to distribute goods, but Communism is the point at which the people organise to dictate distribution by themselves. All of the described governments try to control (at least some) means of production, so they are fundamentally Socialist for doing so, not Communist. There has never been a Communist society, only the stage before Communism i.e. Socialism.

[communistinternationalco.]

*It is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea NOT Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.

[kingstonb]

He pronounced Laos wrong it's not Lay-ose it sounds more like mouse with a L. Sorry but I had to point that out.
Edit: yes I've also heard it pronounced like ow with a L in front of it but my point still stands(also I looked it up and it is pronounced like mouse).

[lostandmadguy]

"Ideologies are not evil, people are"

[thelastcasualty]

What is the last true communist country? Well it's Mcdonalds.

Edit] Obviously I know it can't be considered "communist" it's a joke chill out.

[willhiggins]

Marxism actually also includes transitional periods that include using capitalism to build up a country to eventually become fully communist.

[triscuitbiscuit]

Countries have had "communist" parties but it's a silly thing to say if any of them have achieved communism. True communism would involve a utopian state with the absence of currency. Communism is also not the opposite of democracy, as communism at its true form as stated by Marx is supposed to be openly democratic, not authoritarian. Not that I agree with communism, but those are just the facts.

[dacoconutnut]

In USSR, there was an special elite named 'Nomenklatura'. The members were from the communist party and workers from the government. That means the communist party didn't aimed actually for the communism (despite aplying most principles of communism), but they aimed for power.

[RUINOUSDOLL]

A few little corrections here:

The development of capitalism didn't _disrupt_ the socialist cultures of any Marxist country - rather, decisions to privatize the economy were usually imposed from above onto the people. The original concept was that capitalism's fast development rate could be used to the advantage of a socialist revolution by temporarily privatizing the nation's economic assets. Of course, giving power back to the capitalist class only put the state under their thumb again, thus disproving the idea, which was illadvised as it was motivated by Marxist theoretical principles.

In fact, in the case of the Soviet Union, the decision was wholly undemocratic (75% of the populace wanted to preserve the Soviet Union). The CPSU was deeply corrupt, and privatized the economy entirely at the expense of the Soviet people. Russia is only now recovering from the economic disaster of privatization.

Also, the conflict was not between "communist and democratic ideology", and portraying it as such a dichotomy is just dishonest. It was a conflict between conservative liberalism and revolutionary socialism.

[rodrifunk]

2:50 "souht vietnam-was democratic..." democratic... really? this channel is very pro-US

[imaituii]

2:23Cuba literally has said many times that their Castro era is over. China has zero socialist policies. Laos I don't know enough about. North Korea is in fact just that country that people keep calling socialist to convince the poor not to eat the rich. Vietnam is the only country that is definitely socialist

[futurequagmire]

Russia : hey that's my thing and I don't even do it anymore 😂😂

[michaelojeda]

As one of my professors once said to me with regards to the remaining so-called Communist States, "Their governments threw out the Marxism and kept the Leninism."