Siad Barre ruined Somalia with his communism, imagine if we became a capitalist open market country? I think Somalis in general are capitalist people.
Which is why it declined so hard, it was better when the US was running its economy free market style, by having some state companies it failed to let the losers lose putting them in an economic collapseJapan isn't a free Market Capitalist economy. It was a mixed-economy with some aspects of central planning by the MITI government agency.
Siad Barre wasn't a communist. He was larping as one in exchange for aid from the USSR. Really, he a was an incompetent tribalist fascist.