The answer is that without a country capable of standing up to the US, they do not. These countries that still have socialist goverments have to hold on to power in a world where US hegemony is a fact.

Maybe a naive question but is there no way to have a country that stands strong against the US and its interference without being repressive/authoritarian against your own people? What’s the point of being a socialist dictator for many years/decades if you’re not allowing the people to gain collective control of the land/resources/means of production/etc. for their own benefit?

Everything that’s made of atoms is 99.9999999% empty (if it is indeed correct, I don’t have much scientific knowledge)

https://medium.com/illumination/why-solid-matter-is-mostly-empty-space-03f42e95c03f

Do you mean 1844? I couldn’t find 1848

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_and_Philosophic_Manuscripts_of_1844

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/preface.htm

Influence. I want to be able to convince everybody with power around the world to actively support a transition away from a system that’s based on hierarchy and coercion to a decentralized and cooperative one.

They will either give special permissions to relevant businesses (maybe an expensive Super Premium Golden Access), or use selective enforcement to only go after people/businesses that don’t comply to their overall authoritarianism and pose too much of a risk to the status quo.