The growth of Vietnam rivals that of China and has been praised even by the World Economic Forum, they have adopted a socialist-oriented market economy planned by the state, China alone is responsible for the greatest reductions in extreme poverty anywhere in the world, Stalin's five year plans, while with many faults, swiftly industrialized Russia and brought the nation into the 20th century, Cuba is the most "sustainably developed country in the world" and has a higher literacy rate, lower child mortality rate and higher life expectancy than the United States because of their generous state programs in education and healthcare.
After the Spanish anarchists collectivized upwards of 70% of towns in the country amid the Spanish Civil War, production increased and they closed factories linked with spreading TB. Some historians say it was an effective example of workers utilizing self-management.
After the Sandinista revolution, the Marxist Sandinista National Liberation Front brought illiteracy to just 12% with their successful campaign. In Burkina Faso, under the leadership of Marxist revolutionary Thomas Sankara, school attendance increased amid a national literacy campaign, land was redistributed under land reform, 10 million trees were planted to combat desertification and 2 million children were vaccinated against measles, yellow fever and meningitis. Today, the libertarian communist Zapatista rebel territories enjoy better services in healthcare, access to water than the pro-government Mexican communities (which they have sustained themselves since 1994).
There are multiple successes from socialist governments and movements. But they have been limited because of western interference and sabotage.
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