When I defend self-described #socialist countries, it's not because I think they are "better" countries or that they're "good" countries fighting the "bad" #capitalist ones. Heck, I don't even have to agree with or believe in their politics.

#CriticalSupport for places like #china or #cuba is important because their actions and problems are scrutinized by western academics, news, and audiences with a fine toothed comb for anything remotely negative about their societies while literally ignoring the same thing or redirecting blame onto something else besides "#capitalism".

Stub your toe in Moscow in 1935 and it's proof of #communism's failures, but homeless people dying in the cold every winter in the United States? Oh that's something #charity can fix, even though it never has.

#ActuallyExistingSocialism #AES #nonprofit