“I’d regard it as evil, but hardly stupid.”
If people advocate a system that has failed all over the world
everywhere it has been tried, they are stupid.
Also evil
Also psychotic.
Socialism concentrates power in the hands of government officials. It is very effective at doing so. The fact that it is extremely detrimental to the pæons hardly justifies calling it a failure, especially when those in power are seeking to oppress the pæons anyway.