Every self-described socialist I’ve heard blathering about it doesn’t actually care a whip about socialism per se. All they talk about is how much they hate capitalism, because they’re usually just jealous of how much money other people have. That’s why socialism never works; because no thought is put into it actually being a functional system.
There’s a passage in the Gulag Archipelago in which the local Bolshevik revolutionaries were described as to be made up of “the village lazy bones”.