Socialist governments cannot govern if businesses close their doors and send their employees home. Those governments feed off the cash such businesses produce.
In fact, if farmers quit producing food, or truckers stop bringing goods to government capital cities, government will starve along with the regular citizens. The producers have the power to end government abuse, if they have the will. And they get that will by being pushed too far.
Historically socialist governments force their citizens to comply. This is what happened in the USSR, China, Germany, Cambodia, Cuba, etc.
A crisis or revolution is used to justify consolidation of power. Then the firing squads/re-education camps run 24/7 until resistance is crushed. Then the resulting broken-spirited serfs are assimilated into the new socialist ideal and live the rest of the lives in an Orwellian dystopia.
Can you name a place where socialism has receded in a 'Randian', passive resistance sense when its tenets proved destructive? This is a serious question and I would be delighted to know an example.