Achievements of socialism

The bourgeois press regularly demonizes socialism and communism and promotes the idea that "socialism has failed everywhere it's been tried." This page is designed to debunk these claims with historical facts.

USSR

The broad masses of pre-revolutionary Russia were deeply poor and lacked basic necessities, while only the upper class had access to education and healthcare.

Following the Russian Revolution and subsequent establishment of the USSR, the following rights were introduced:

• The right to eight-hour work day.
• The right to annual paid leave.
• The right to three-year maternity leave.
• The right to free general and professional education, including higher education.
• The right to free health care.
• The right to use nurseries, kindergartens, summer camps — free of charge.
• The right to free sanatorium-and-spa treatment.
• The right to free housing.
• Equal rights for women.

Many of these rights forced Western bourgeois dictatorships to adopt similar policies, to stave off the risk of a proletarian revolution.

Latin America

Nicaragua

• Nicaragua, under the socialist Sandinista government, has diversified away from colonial-era cash crops and monocultures, delivered sustained economic growth, poverty alleviation.

See also

• Failures of capitalism