An honest Ukrainian gets electricity from power plants built by communists. Capitalism can offer him only the import of energy resources from developed countries.
And it's unclear what "mixed system" you're talking about. This is not Russia, this is Ukraine. Since the 90s, Ukraine has been a 100% capitalist state that bankrupted all its enterprises and sold its factories for scrap metal. If anything has remained there, it is thanks to the support of Yeltsin's Russia and the United States.
welcome to the vibrant laissez faire capitalism of mongolia, benin and afghanistan
And what's wrong with Mongolia? They somehow manage to be surprisingly completely invisible 😄
no one denies communist governments can build things, by the way
when you have millions of slaves it's hard to not build anything
But their capitalist system didn't end slavery. People slave away for peanuts for oligarchs and corrupt bureaucrats with zero chance of ever climbing out of that swamp. For a lot of them, the war with Russia actually made their dream of getting the hell out of Ukraine come true.
what you're describing is socialism
as I said, it's a mixed economy
Don't substitute concepts. I described capitalism specifically. And in the modern world, capitalism can exist only when it is backed by the strongest military, capable of destabilizing the situation in any oil-rich country.
Iran and Venezuela are the next candidates to feed the AI bubble.
ok since you've defined your terms like that then yes, I agree "capitalism" is bad
still a little better than full socialism
but of course laissez faire voluntarism is the ideal
The fact that communism turned Ukraine into an energy-developed state does not negate the existence of regions where communism did nothing. Yes, they received benefits from communism, but the entire Soviet "machine" was working for those benefits. In other words, it is probably wrong to expect capitalist Ukraine to do what the Soviet Union did, and what Ukraine itself did as part of that union. But honestly, the scale of Ukraine's decline after the Soviet period is striking. This is a rare case where the showcase of capitalism looks worse.
