I once read about a doctor in Cuba who rides taxi at night so that he can make additional income to enjoy luxury. You spend many years in a medical college and if you still cannot afford a quality life, why do you have to waste your time studying. However, we also need to see inherent problem that sometimes democracy cannot address. Some groups and communities in certain societies are systematically subjugated for hundreds, probably thousands of years, Communism usually address to this segment of the society. This is the reason why communism grew where there was poverty.
And what was the typical end result? Uplifting out of poverty or food rationing, starvation, and death?
Exactly. So my answer to this question of what went wrong is that the people still allow communism to exist, or forget what it entails and let it run rampant again.
People have the power to change the regime. In our country we did that multiple times, we fought against autocracy multiple times and we won. We even did not allow Communist to topple the state. But sadly in many countries, where people have been subjugated for a long time they no longer have courage to do that. Even when they revolt, they cannot push towards logical conclusion just like we can see in Myanmar.
At the same time it is also correct that due to prolonged suppression of opposition, people tend to lose their spirit to fight against dictatorial rulers and therefore it is difficult for them to overthrow their rulers. Myanmar example shows this.
Yeah, that's what I think. Interestingly, sometimes people also revolt against liberal regimes and then establish rouge nations. That's what happened in Iran and that is what happening in Bangladesh.
