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The system that allowed the banks to make sneaky and underhanded deals that are still required to be enforced and paid off is what caused this. Communism and Socialism would likely do away with banks, or reduce them to be strictly a place where individuals and businesses can safely deposit money and have it returned when they need it.

Communism has rarely been seen in it's proper state for long. After the revolutionary leader dies, it often becomes more of a deformed worker state. Still, Russia was mostly full of poor dirt farmers before the revolution. After the revolution, amid battles with counter-revolutionaries sponsored and waged by 14 foreign nations, they were able to get everyone literacy and education while developing the infrastructure to defeat the invasion by Germany during WWII.

Paris Commune would have worked if the remaining French army and Prussian army didn't spend the next 3 months murdering them all in cold blood to restore capitalism in France.

Cuba is cooking on the top burner given the embargo on them, they have the best medical education and organic farming techniques in the world, nobody is homeless or hungry, and prisons are reformatory institutions instead of dungeons like in America (you can even get a degree in nursing while in prison there). Despite what US media tries to paint, they do actually have a direct democracy in Cuba.