>> It’s an experiment, and some very good things came out of that.
I agree with the above, but perhaps not with all of his conclusions.
I used to judge a lot of science fairs. Kids whose experiments didn’t turn out as they expected seemed to think the experiment was a failure. If you expect an experiment to prove that X is true and the experiment “fails”, it might be that you have proven that X is false - or at least you have gathered some evidence pointing in that direction.
So perhaps the experiment provided yet more evidence that the idea behind it (socialism) has some serious flaws. Or that socialists are really, really, really slow learners.
They didn’t need an experiment to learn that socialism doesn’t work.
They didn’t need an experiment to learn that socialism doesn’t work.