The Word socialist has been flung around quite a bit in the last few years. Not since the cold war has the term collected so much concentration in the newspapers and from political leaders but, when you study the countries who have a socialist economic structure, you can see remarkable closeness to the United States – but there are some abrupt variations. Read through the article and learn What Countries Still have Communism.
Hanoi. Earlier the fall of the Soviet Union, there were many countries with communist governments. In 2016, there remain four, or five, depending on the North Korean regime’s reading.
China
with 1.3 billion occupants, China is widely known as the most populated country in the world. It owes the rise to the second biggest economy in the world of its departure from the communist economic model. Since the 1980s, China has pursued a policy of reform and openness. The socialist market economy operates according to capitalist methods. The communist ideology is cultivated but serves only to preserve the dictatorship of the Communist Party.
Vietnam
China’s neighboring country, approximately the size of Germany without Hesse, with more than 3000 kilometers of coast on the South China Sea. About 94 million inhabitants. Ho Chi Minh established the Communist Party in the 1930s in the struggle against colonial power France. After the defeat of France, the Communists also won the US-backed regime in South Vietnam. Since 1975 they control the united country. Since 1986 there have been market reforms.
Cuba
A good 11 million residents, about the size of the GDR. After the revolution of 1959, it turned to communism in the early 1960s and sought strength from the capitalist neighbours USA, which had a significant influence on the island. Until 2006, Revolutions leader Fidel Castro ruled (89). Among Fidel’s younger brother Raúl (84), Cuba has been fighting for a number of years with tentative economic reforms to boost the country’s slow economy.
Laos
Sick next-door-neighbor of Vietnam without coast access, slightly smaller than the Federal Republic without the new federal states. Nearly seven million inhabitants. Laos was part of the French colonial area Indochina. In the Vietnam War, it became the most bombed country in the world. US bombers put aside vast areas of the city, as Vietnamese communists were sheltering in the border area. Soils are contaminated to this day. After the ending of the Vietnam War, Vietnam attacked and installed the Communist government in 1975.
North Korea
China’s neighbor, about one-third the size of Germany, has 24 million inhabitants. The UN challenges the dictatorship of gross human rights violations. In 2009, North Korea lifted all references to communism from its constitution. But the workers’ party was founded in 1945 as a branch of the former Communist Party. At the head of the state, the party and the army is the leader Kim Jong Un; He “inherited” the power position of his father. Already his grandfather, Kim Il Sung, came to the top of the party with the support of Moscow and was praised as a state founder.
List of Countries that Still Have Communism
| Rank | Country | Capital |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | China | Beijing |
| 2. | Vietnam | Hanoi |
| 3. | Cuba | Havana |
| 4. | Laos | Vientiane |
| 5. | North Korea | Pyongyang |
What Connects the Communist Regimes?
Its origin point is the instructions of the German state theorists Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895) as well as the Soviet founder Lenin (1870-1924). The aim of communism is truly the classless society, in which all personalities contribute to the community ownership and live from it.
Who has accomplished the vision of Marx, Engels and Lenin?
None. While on the other hand, Vietnam and China have long been supporting private ownership and leadership, there are more and more millionaires, and the gap between wealthy and poor is growing. Everywhere corruption is flourishing; in Cuba and Laos, the state is ailing. North Korea depends upon military power and nuclear weapons, while the people are dying.
What are the Countries’ Best Achievements?
Cuba praises its health and education, China the successes of its “socialist market economy” and the unity of the vast country. According to Vietnam’s communists, the union of the north and the south after the labor wars among colonial leaders and Americans, the North Korea desires to surprise its citizens with military power. Laos issues peace and rebuilding after the Americans bombed the country in the Vietnam War as a flight of Vietnamese communists.
Wobble the Regime?
None of the countries supports freedom of expression. Protesters are killed everywhere. But revolutions are not in sight. Laos is sparsely populated, most people live in the country settled by politics. Several Cubans have been retreating for years, but are now hoping for an opening through the approach to the US. North Korea intimidates its citizens with deterrents and labor camps. Vietnam, and China depend on growth, which gives various people the prospect of material prosperity and holds the disappointment.
Do Communist parties play an important role elsewhere?
Not really. In the former Soviet republics there are Communist parties or their successors, but they have little political influence. In Russia, the Communists are still the second-largest faction, but have no prospect of government formation in the foreseeable future. In Moldova, the neighboring country of Romania, the Communists have been in opposition since 2009. In Ukraine, a prosecution against the Communist Party has been underway since 2014. In the Himalayan state of Nepal, the head of the government is, by name, Communist, but it supports a multi-party system.
