So what's preventing Third World nations from obtaining the knowledge necessary to extricate themselves from their technological darkness? This is the information age, is it not?
Then again, look at those who hold the Marxist line right here in the U.S. We're not culturally backwards, yet Marxism thrives among the intelligensia.
Among the intelligensia, yes. But not among the general populace. If it did, we wouldn't be a fraction as successful as we've been.
Yes it is the information age. But who has access to the information? It's useless if you can't get to it. And since when did communist nations allow free inquiry and thought?
Among the intelligensia, yes. But not among the general populace. If it did, we wouldn't be a fraction as successful as we've been.
You're right. Thankfully, the body politic doesn't embrace Marxism, and if we did, we'd be a shell of our former selves.
But being culturally backwards does not neccesarily flow to becoming a Marxist nation. Those with the weapons dictate these terms. If you were already poor and uneducated, what are you going to do when Marxist revolutionaries take over your land? Now you're poor, uneducated, and oppressed even more because of the communist government.
Look at Zimbabwe. Mugabe lost the last election, but he didn't give up power. Those whites who were in the former Rhodesia spread enough of a thought of freedom to where the overall population now doesn't want communism. But like Mao said, all power flows from the barrel of a gun. If you're weaponless, you have no hope.
Communist African nations offer no hope to those people. It has nothing to do with culture, but pure power.