Rising expectations in the face of failure leads to the chaos socialists seek - or as you say, "Lenin's The worse, the better.
>>Rising expectations in the face of failure leads to the chaos socialists seek - or as you say, “Lenin’s The worse, the better.<<
This has several benefits for the revolutionaries.
It allows them to rule with an iron fist using secret emergency orders: “anarcho tyranny.”
And it allows them to blame their scapegoats for the failure of their own policies. The scapegoats can then be targeted for extermination, permanently removing their future potential rivals.