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Educate me on AES countries (hexbear.net)
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I'm a baby Marxist, and I'm not particularly knowledgeable on AES countries. I've really enjoyed finding effort posts debunking propaganda and talking about the actual state of them, but dredging them up with the search feature isn't particularly effective. I'd love to hear what people have to say, especially about China and the DPRK, since those are the ones that come up most frequently.

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[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

im not good at effort posting but

China went from a feudal backwater having their country partitioned off to European powers and being genocided by japan to lifting 800 million people out of poverty in the span of 70 years

DPRK had at least 80% of their buildings turned to rubble to completely eradicating homelessness under the most extreme sanctions imaginable