The funny part about a lot of the comments on this thread is that people don’t seem to see the very large elephant sitting there.
“Communism never works” because Venezuela is selling out to China.
Yet China has for 60+ years been a fully Communist country. At least in theory and name.
And China has gone from waaay below Venezuela to gaining on the USA.
Either China isn’t “really” Communist, or Communism CAN work.
China is getting to the point where both Mao Zedong and Josef Stalin would be horrified at what the country has become. Communism in that country is more like a veneer than anything else.