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The f-you, got mine of socialism.
The biggest issue with that phrase imo is that it ignores imperialism
The imperialists are quite happy to turn every egg in the world into dinner
Wouldn't a socialist regime change project run into the same problems liberal democratic regime change projects (repeatedly) run up against?
I sort of agree with this, this is partially how we've gotten incredibly annoying Estonian and Polish fascists endlessly crying at how the USSR liberated them from the Nazis
These people are fundamentally unserious on the one hand, but on the other it is objectively better for a people to naturally reach their own revolutionary conditions and then give material assistance in the duration of and after their revolution.
Liberal democratic regime change projects tend to be about economic imperialism. The goal is never to install a democracy, so their rate of failure is a lot lower than it looks if you take the regime change explanation at face value.
One would hope that regime change projects which genuinely center proletarian liberation and are carried out by groups motivated by a more scientifically correct and useful ideology, would tend to be more successful, since there isn't an ulterior motive of exploitation introducing basic contradictions in the project from the start. (And they have better tools for understanding reality and engineering conditions to produce favourable outcomes, without being so clouded by ones own propaganda.)
(I am not well read so I'm just doin layperson stuff here, I would appreciate being corrected in my thinking if there's a better way to understand this.)
Read about the attempts to export revolution to Poland at the start of the USSRs life and how the party quickly learned that it was an utterly fruitless campaign and the people of Poland were not at all ready to accept proletarian lead installed by a foreign entity.