Where did the institutions of the Western world fail? Socialism, no matter where or when it has been applied in the world, eventually devolves into a mean, austere generalized state of poverty, with a strongman type of leader, necessarily a stern and heavy-handed dictator at the top, and a band of dispirited peons beneath him, none willing to challenge the existing order, until the strongman should waver or falter, then all hell breaks loose, with chaos and anarchy the immediate result. Then either the cycle repeats, or, in very rare instances, the situation resolves into a declaration of freedom and guardrails are put up to preserve that freedom as broadly as possible for all participants.
Universities.