Mario the idea vs mario the man

Wroooong wrong wrong. I’ll give you one example of many.
Thomas Sankara, the Marxist revolutionary in Africa that NATO France murdered with a military coup in 1987, built the most prosperous reign Burkino Faso had ever seen to date. Liberating the African citizens from French imperialists, making the country completely self reliant on food, built the most medical facilities ever, liberated women, appointed women to government positions, and had the greatest women’s rights movements in African history, the first to claim AIDS an epidemic, massive education movements brought to an illiterate country, cereal production rose by 75%, tens of thousands of children saved by his vaccination campaign, and is still today celebrated by the people there. Schools, rails, removed the dependence of the Faso people on foreign aid that went nowhere, planted over 10 million trees that combated desertification, school attendance quadrupled, infant mortality rate cut in half, outlawed polygamy / forced marriage / female genital mutilation. Sold all of the luxuries of the former oppressive government, humbled all government officials.
Sankara was an absolute beaming light for his people, “Africa’s Che”

The Red Army liberated the Russians from a monarchy, gave the freedom of self determination to Finland, Ukraine, all countries within the Russian Empire. Gave land to the people who worked it, gave opportunities to everyone, you were based on /merit/ and merit alone. No having your mommy pay your way into a position. A majority of every ex-USSR countries say they wish they could return to the days of the USSR. I could talk about the Soviet Union for hours, but there is too much to just list out blindly.

When I speak of socialism I speak of it in the temporary sense. “Socialism is the first phase of Communist society”.
I am a communist not a socialist.
I do not focus on Europe or the West much, if I can be honest. But the death of Western consumer culture and imperialism, gluttony, over consumption, frivolity, is an absolute necessity for the survival of the East and global South.

Western Capitalism is destroying hundreds of millions of people. I beg you to think of the consequences of the West on resource producing nations, on nations of energy wealth. Your capitalism is suffocating 3rd world countries to inflate the bubble that Westerners wish to live in. I believe in the empowerment of the working class of the West. Bringing jobs back to these countries. Self sufficiency for all nations. But one of my prevailing pushes for socialism in America is begging for Western capitalism to stay the hell out, and quit coup’ing 3rd world nations attempting to unify their people. Western capitalism pushes against innovation in order to keep holds on the slave and impoverished classes within their own country’s and abroad. There is a reason they offer grain, not farming equipment, as aid. It’s forced dependency.

I fear when I mention this side of the push. Westerners think I am trying to destroy their way of life. Whatever. I will quote Sankara, “we must choose either champagne for a few, or safe drinking water for all”