Socialism works, if you are ok having only a roof over your head and eating monkey meat.

it's like he found a stylist and was like "make me look like zee evil villain"

Perhaps it comes naturally for him because he is,

😂 😂😂 monkey meat and a thatched hut is all you need.

Why do conservatives think socialism is about owning nothing? It’s about not having an insignificant minority own and concentrate a majority of the wealth away from those that produce it, while those that produce it struggle to survive. We want shared ownership of wealth, to deliver according to need so nobody has to struggle and everyone has a dignified living.

You should have lived under USSR rule. But it’s not too late; you can still live under socialism in Venezuela, where the standard of living plummeted under Chavez/Maduro. Under USSR, Venezuela, NoKo & Cuba the workers are poor and the party members live high on the hog. That is undisputed truth. You own NOTHING of value; the state owns it all.

In the Soviet Union and Cuba, you are correct, there was/is a problem with elitism, and the party is absolutely a separate, bureaucratic class that maintains its own interests separately and above that of the proletariat. For that reason I do not believe Russia was a genuine worker’s state. However, Russia and Cuba have something in common, not unlike other Marxist-Leninist states of the past… their recorded wealth inequality/disparity was among the lowest in the world. These states, while often antagonistic to worker’s causes, did still do more for their people than the United States even could today.

Venezuela is complicated today in its leadership but it isn’t Marxist-Leninist, and it isn’t a communist state. North Korea doesn’t have a Marxist-Leninist government but they practice something similar. These are not as successful examples of socialism, but I also don’t think Chavez is completely to blame for Venezuela, as his reforms initially made significant progress in the country. The country was doomed when the price of oil fell. We’ve also made their situation worse with sanctions, and Bush wanted to overthrow Chavez in 2004.

In China, the state owns almost all land. I don’t think they have significant interest in your personal belongings.

We have seen Socialism play out repeatedly. It always fails to deliver on its promise and you are not more astute than all the other proponents of socialism throughout history that failed. It failed because it’s inherently flawed and leads to death and suffering. You promote that, Americans don’t.