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Social<strong>is</strong>t Countries<br />
Social<strong>is</strong>m, a system in which the working class takes control<br />
of the means of production and the d<strong>is</strong>tribution and exchange<br />
of goods, <strong>is</strong> not just a fantasy, pipe dream, utopian v<strong>is</strong>ion, or<br />
good idea. In fact, even though social<strong>is</strong>m was gener<strong>all</strong>y constructed<br />
despite a h<strong>is</strong>tory of underdevelopment and imperial<strong>is</strong>t<br />
intervention, th<strong>is</strong> new economic system has proven itself to be<br />
far superior to capital<strong>is</strong>m.<br />
Prior to the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, for example, Russia<br />
and the surrounding countries which eventu<strong>all</strong>y made up<br />
the Soviet Union were impover<strong>is</strong>hed. Famine and starvation<br />
were common. Women were exploited in the virtual captivity<br />
of their homes as well as in the factories and fields. Workers<br />
labored long hours for very little pay. Peasants worked <strong>all</strong> summer<br />
growing and harvesting crops, only to be forced to turn<br />
them over to the land-owning nobility at the end of the season,<br />
leaving them barely enough to survive the winter. Education<br />
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