[dang]

It's a shallow dismissal. It makes a grandiose claim without support. More importantly, it doesn't teach us anything. An example or two could have rectified that.

[notyourday]

Do I need to provide an example that water is wet? But ok, just for you:

Largest scale:

USSR North Korea Cuba Recent entry: Venezuela Recent entry: South Africa

Smaller:

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21589469-collapse-sp...

Even smaller:

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/gvkqnm/marxist-vegan...

[dang]

Maybe an example or two wouldn't have rectified it. Would you please read the site guidelines and abide by them when commenting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html