Revolutionary Catalonia was not perfect by a long shot, but didn’t have quite the same set of problems.
Weren’t thousands of people summarily executed in extrajudicial killings?
Sounds like the Western “frontier” of the United States.
The difference is that nobody is using the US frontier as a scraping-the-barrel positive example!
Seems to me like it wasn't perfect by a long shot!
Neither did most communist states in the first three years of their existence.
I might suggest that 3 years during the Spanish Civil War is not really a good basis for how things "wind up".
how bad is Cuba these days? I haven’t been since the 90s, but then the grocery stores has pretty limited stock, but i think access to healthcare and education was pretty good.