Communism with two N's?

In the USA we pride ourselves on our Democratic history. Not only have we adopted for ourselves a system of Capitalism which underpins this democracy, but we have faught to make sure that other countries also embrace this capitalism, lest they *gasp* think for a second of turning to Communism. After all, under communism, there would be no incentive for anyone to better themselves and work harder. Surely in communism and post-communist countries you would see a population which falls so far behind our own in departments such as literacy so as to make our own argument for us. Or do they?

Below is the statistics of the U.S.'s literacy rates:






Clearly a 99% literacy rate is very good, but it is certainly interesting to note that in terms of spending on education we rank way down at #57.

Now lets take a look at Russia, one of the first countries that comes to mind when one thinks of communism:




Russia actually has a literacy rate higher than our own! Surely though, this must be an anomaly, so lets take a look at another communist country: Cuba




Cuba's literacy rate is even higher than Russia's, and if you look at it's spending on education you might see why as it ranks #9 in the world.

What about a country which has had so much difficulty economically (some might say part of which is due to the fault of communism), Vietnam:




Although we can see quite a discrepancy between men and women which suggests that womens' rights to education may not be equal to that of men, we do definitely see the potential of their educational system to get the literacy rate well into the 90% range despite all of Vietnam's economical and social problems.

Even in China, we see high literacy rates (despite the same sort of gender inequality):





And just in case there is any dispute over whether or not this data is biased in any way, you should know that it came from our very own CIA's word factbook. So this should definitely serve as a lesson that if you decide to decry communism, you should know that there is a high probability that those living in the very countries you criticize will be able to read exactly what you have to say.