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Not really (with maybe the exception of east germany, but not through any internal revolution, but dragged into a socialism by the USSR after WW2). Every country that became socialist was previously a feudal monarchy, and largely produced an agricultural surplus.

One of Lenin's major correction's to Marx and Engels, was that capitalism does not break in it's birthplaces, where capitalism is most entrenched, but in the weakest links in the chain, where capitalist industry and power is still in a precarious position.

This was the case in Russia, China, Cuba, DPRK, Vietnam, Laos, - etc.

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Clan | Socialist | Mongolia Clan | Feudal | Germany Clan | Slave | West Africa Slave | Capitalist | US Feudal | Capitalist | Western Europe Feudal | Socialist | USSR, China, DPRK, Vietnam, Cuba Capitalist | Socialist | East Germany Socialist | Capitalist | USSR Feudal | Slave | Roman Republic Slave | Feudal | Late Roman Empire (Colonate)

Note:

• Marx and Engels wrong abt birthplaces transition.
• Almost every one of these transitions came through war.
• The most common socialist transition is not from capitalist -> socialist, but feudal -> socialist