Mars posted:If your conviction was so strong, you should have gone to a country that practices Marxist-Leninist ideology. Why did you come to the West and enjoy the fruits of a free market system? You should have gone to North Korea or Cuba and not the West that your Comrade Leader railed and ranted against for most of his adult life, especially after he was brainwashed and pu55y whipped by Janet the Commie.
Firstly, Mars, I discovered that what had obtained in the USSR & Eastern Europe wasn't genuine socialism but totalitarian Stalinism. Thanks to Mikhail Gorbachev.
Secondly, all capitalist countries are class societies with working class populations and socialist groups & parties. In the US, Bernie Sanders campaigned on a socialist platform for the Democratic party's presidential nomination and nearly got it. Also in the US there is an International Socialist Organization, a Socialist Equality Party, a Communist Party etc. Here in Canada I have always voted for the socialist New Democratic Party. The NDP is Ontario's official opposition party. There are other socialist groups like International Socialist Canada, Fightback etc which operate openly & legally.
Capitalism is a global system that gave birth to a global working class. Capitalists move from country to country and workers likewise move from country to country. Karl Marx wrote Das Capital in England and promoted socialism from there through the International Working Men's Association aka First International. It's not necessary for a worker to live in a so-called communist country.
Today many people of various political stripes concede that the capitalist system is not everlasting. It will eventually come to an end like slavery, feudalism, British empire, Roman empire etc. Already many liberals are talking about a post-capitalist world. Some of us call that future world socialist but any other name will work.