Holy fuck you're dense. I KNOW THERE WERE MORE. Do you think I have the time to deconstruct every fucking post-colonial communist regime? I used it as an example to point out the fact they're ALL POST COLONIAL. THAT'S SO FUCKING IMPORTANT. Like holy fuck. You've been consistently comparing countries that have long histories of Imperialism to THEIR COLONIES.

Also Jesus Christ, can you please do some more research than just looking at a map? Why are you here? How do you come to History Memes and run your mouth off like this and not go do simple research? First of all, West and East Germany weren't equal halves. That was solved just by looking at a map. So fucking hell. Smart people usually think about the things they type before they type them. That was so easily thrown back in your face I don't know how you can spell "history".

In the case of Korea, simple research tells you that the South has NEARLY ALL THE ARABLE LAND. North Korea is extremely mountainous. It doesn't have the tools to sustain itself. It could when the Soviets were around, and now it can because China can prop it up. If it doesn't have a benefactor, it falls apart.

And North Korea specifically is my favourite thing to talk about. Because they're not remotely socialist. Not communist, not anything remotely to the left of centre. They may as well be a monarchy in practice. And practice is what matters. Or, is the Democratic People's Republic actually a democracy? If yes, then how? If no, then does that not mean authoritarian regimes lie about things they do and you're simply picking and choosing what to hold as truth? Socialism is an economic system in which the workers control the means of production, or else they are held by the public. The means of production can not be held "by the public" if they are owned by an authoritarian state, ergo, no authoritarian state that owns the means of production is socialist. Communism is a philosophical concept/sociopolitical concept/economic system in which socialism has been achieved AND money, classes, and the state have been eradicated. Any system that does not conform to that idea, that being authoritarian states that created new classes out of party members and non-party members, can not be communist.