Socialism hasn’t really gotten a good reputation in the last few decades. It’s often associated with the related-yet-more-extreme communism which has a history that’s pretty much riddled with wars, strife and poverty. Socialism is a lot more than just the extreme version of it however, and every political wing has had good and bad leaders.
Let’s take a look at some socialist leaders that we’ve seen in history that were fairly popular. Do note that popular doesn’t mean you have to agree with their point of view or even that the rest of the world at the time did.
Dilma Rousseff
This former Brazilian leader has carried on the legacy that Lula started and made Brazil a place that could be attractive to investors without it leading to poverty and bad living environments for Brazil’s people. It’s a course that has set Brazil on a nice path of growth and has put them back on the map internationally.
Fidel Castro
Despite being a man mostly associated with cigars and liberating Cuba, he was the man who alongside Che Guevara freed his country from a feudal regime and kept on running the country the way it should have been despite the way Washington and the rest of the world may have felt about it.
Nicolás Maduro
The current Venezuelan president is very much anti-America and isn’t exactly known for taking it easy when it comes to negotiations or letting people know how he feels. He wants to turn Venezuela into a socialist utopia and will stop at nothing to very little to get there.
