The only thing different is the speed run by cribbing other people's notes.
Fucking hilarious. You can just look at homelessness, cost of living, rent, nutrition - by all measures the difference is organizing society to maximize the benefit to the masses.
The problem is once hierarchies become set. Abject poverty returns and becomes inevitable.
China is the longest running communist-led experiment and I know you anarchists have no problem identifying that China has a strong hierarchy and yet poverty alleviation is still happening at a mass scale. So, your "theory" doesn't fit the evidence