Socialization usually thrives when a vacuum is created by crisis. The collectivists want industry or markets to collapse so they can come in and ‘rescue’ it which really means take it over. These KOS kiddo deadbeats really just want big brother to pay for their homes.
“Socialization usually thrives when a vacuum is created by crisis”
I would not single out socialism only.
In a crisis as you describe, ‘despotism’ with what are locally considered extreme measures by any name thrives. A good example is weinmar germany - one the one hand you have the communists, the other, the nsdaq (fascists), actively fighting it out. In that case, the fascists won, but I am not sure how different living in stalinist russia and mid-30s germany was to the tax serf.