I won’t claim that democracy worked very well in USSR or China but it sure as hell is/was better for people living there than the capitalist “democracies” of the west.
Are you saying just the application of democracy was/is better or the overall living under those systems?
I’d say that democracy was/is applied better in those countries. I wouldn’t say the overall standard of living was higher in USSR than in the US, but there also definitely were many advantages in workers rights and human rights in general. Nowadays I’d say for a working-class person China provides a better overall standard of living than the US.
Are you saying just the application of democracy was/is better or the overall living under those systems?
I’d say that democracy was/is applied better in those countries. I wouldn’t say the overall standard of living was higher in USSR than in the US, but there also definitely were many advantages in workers rights and human rights in general. Nowadays I’d say for a working-class person China provides a better overall standard of living than the US.