[adorno]

Socialism can work in the short term

That's an illusion. It's like a marathon runner who is allowed to take the lead, but everyone in the race knows that, in the end, he's going to lose.

but in the long run it always collapses.

There are always those that refuse to learn the lessons of history, but, they like to pretend that socialism will work, someday, somehow, somewhere. It's the exact definition of insanity that Einstein had in mind.

[ansel12]

“”There are always those that refuse to learn the lessons of history, but, they like to pretend that socialism will work, someday, somehow, somewhere.””

Maybe they aren’t in it for the long run of the nation, maybe they just want the keys to the vault to buy the power and to spend while entrenching that power.

Maybe it isn’t what they build that matters, but what they tear down.