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by lupusreal 493 days ago
In Vietnam, slave labor makes t-shirts sold in American walmarts. Is this successful or meaningful leftism?
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The parent was asking about political parties. In Vietnam, the leftist party runs the country. If "in charge of a politically stable, economically growing country for decades" doesn't meet the definitions of "successful or meaningful" in the context of a political party you're going to have to be more specific.
More successful than meaningful, like the way China is nominally communist but arguably not meaningfully so, as he mentioned.