Why did China and the former USSR abandon their quest for a utopian Marxist society?

Question

any example in history where a developed or developing-Marxist-socialist republic the did not make a transition to a market economy? Which country?

Answer 1

Cuba and North Korea and Libya are still Marxist non-market economies, but all three will transition when the present Great Leader dies or retires.

China and the USSR abandoned their quest because it is unattainable.

Answer 2

Communism is an abject failure both in theory and in practice. In the case of China, they eventually figured that out in time to voluntarily switch to a market economy. The USSR wasn't smart enough to figure that out on its own, and so the value-destroying economy went bankrupt and the country collapsed and disappeared.

Your best example of a surviving Marxist utopia is North Korea, which is officially the Crappiest Country in the World.

Answer 3

China started moving towards a market economy after the death of Mao Tse-Tung.

The Chinese government never abandoned their quest for a utopian society; they just realised it would never occur under socialism.

Answer 4

Because in practice it does not work. North Koreas and cuba. The cubans want to, the North Koreans are under the fist still.

Answer 5

cuz they cannot realize it. And the truth of the history told them the utopian idea doesn't work in the reality.

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Answer 6

Because Hollywood, Big Mac, BigCar, BigGun & all the biggies orchestrated a change in psyche where they thought that BigBrother may not be so bad after all.

Answer 7

Because communism is a fantastic idea but only in theory. It doesn't work in practice, people are too greedy and power-hungry.