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Yep, I’ve heard how communism was just never implemented properly, and that is why communist regimes have had such problems.

Yep, people such as Joe Stalin, Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, just weren’t good enough communists. They just didn’t implement the glorious theories of Marx and Engels properly. That’s what some lead us to believe.

Well, that’s what they lead themselves to believe.

Meanwhile we should be thankful to the Lord for the so-called Robber Barrons who, with the exception of bankers like Morgan, actually built their fortunes on making goods people wanted at prices they found attractive and all as part of voluntarily participated in commerce.

Yes, the Robber Barrons did engage in abuses but they certainly didn’t fill the countryside with mass graves whilst industrializing America the way the socialists did in too many places.

But it gets worse for even big government that still falls short of socialism because government is a net consumer of resources and only in very rarified conditions have they produced anything of actual value. Government makes everything more expensive, distorts commerce and misallocates resources to fit ideologies that really often have nothing to do with what actually works. And of course since free people will still want the good life they have to slave away even harder to make up for the increased cost of government in their lives … which only highlights the absurdity of growing the biggest net polluter (in terms of consuming vs actually producing value) to enforce environmentalism.

And then there’s actual socialism, where career politicians, bureaucrats and other apparatchiks — who probably couldn’t make much more than coffee or tea personally — direct industry to make what they think people want and the crap that results are what people have to just make due with it.