| Godsmom is correct, that no one is stupid enough to want to live under a powerful state with huge taxes, secret police, totalitarianism, stalinism, etc...
I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but the USSR for 99% of its existence didn't resemble classical socialism at all. To be truely socialist, you'd need one simple thing: Worker's democratic control of industry. You will not see this in Cuba, the old USSR, Microsoft, or Scandinavia. Today, you'll only find this with special cases in "free market" societies such as the United States, where people with socialist values form cooperative businesses with fair and democratic business practices. Cooperative businesses have been shown to be superior in many ways to your regular feudal capitalist model.
That being said, you can bet that I'd want to live in a socialist economy. The problem is that 80% of the world belongs to a handful of people, and any serious attempt to usurp their power results in a pointless bloodbath. You can see this happening over and over throughout history. |