Chiroptera writes:
since the only attempts at socialism (Cuba, Nigaragua, post-Kerensky Russia) were destroyed or badly warped from the wars waged against them by the capitalist powers....
Hmm... so, if you spend billions of dollars to undermine socialist economies, they will collapse. Go figure, eh?
Then, if I bulldoze randman's house and it collapses, that must prove that conventional construction methods don't work.
People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.