So we all know about the soviet union, china, and Cuba but what are some lesser-known socialist countries or sizeable socialist movements in history? An example of this could be the Zapatistas, Burkino Fasso, the Paris commune, or republican Spain. I don’t really care if they are specifically Marxist Leninist(although that is preferred and I know not all the examples above are ML or even socialist according to some people but that’s not the point) I’m just looking for some leftist history.
Quite a number of places that you wouldn’t think if you only had a western education have had very strong socialist movements at some point in their history. Ireland, cold war Italy, Germany in 1919, Greece with the civil war in 1950’s, the Naxalite’s in India, France and Japan in the 1960’s, the FARC insurgency in Colombia, Allende in Chile, a number of African nations like Angola, Mozambique Zimbabwe, Egypt under Nasser and Ba’athism in general, Scandinavia as an earlier poster mentioned, Indonesia before Suharto’s crackdown. I could probably name more if I knew more.