No matter what happens, be please remember that you will never be this guy, claiming Venezuela and China are capitalist countries.
Submitted by @dragonkyngChina is a capitalist country.
No one has the slightest bit of idea what the USSR’s economic system actually was, not even state capitalism, but some kind of weird ideology-driven bureaucratic octopus. Either of those takes are significantly better than “all socialism is exactly the same, so if you want poor people to not die of starvation, then fuck you, because VENEZUELA VENEZUELA VENEZUELA VENEZUELA”, as @dragonkyng was trying to say.VENEZEULA VENEZUELA VENEZUELA is not a good argument for not ever helping the poor, but it is a reasonably good argument for not being ideology-huffed, uncautious, and incompetent in attempting to do so. After all, only what is produced can be consumed, and if there is a system with 10% profit then there are some pretty hard limits on just how much you can spend before eating into productive capital.
“USSR was actually an octopus” doesn’t really work that well, since most “seize the means of production” people (rather than welfare and unions people) don’t appear to have solid plans on how to not summon octopi instead of what they say they want. (And some of them openly say there should be no plan.)