I stumbled across that post because it shares a Google search results page for the term “why socialism doesn’t work” with this Web site. Here are some excerpts:

I am sick and tired of reading ignorant people who’ve never read anything Marx or Engels wrote (except possibly the Communist Manifesto) baselessly claim that ’socialism doesn’t work’.

My simple response to people who spout this empty rhetoric is to ask: how do you know?

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So, to those of you on the right wing: okay, fine, keep hating socialism, that’s alright. But if you’re going to be honest and actually read what Marx wrote and then read any history of the Soviet Union, you should all realize that we cannot know that socialism doesn’t work since it’s never been tried in the industrialized world.

Yes, I do have a strong basis for the claim that socialism doesn’t work!

Saying that socialism has never been tried before is like saying that jumping off a 300 foot cliff in the morning, whilst flapping your arms for a soft landing, getting up and heading over for breakfast, has never been tried before.

It’ll be the best breakfast you can ever have. A sublime experience! You should try it! Oh, it’s impossible, it doesn’t work you say? Well, how do you know? Have you ever tried having breakfast after jumping off a 300 foot cliff, whilst flapping your arms for a soft landing?

Similarly, the socialists’ desired notion of a great society based on socialist principles cannot be tried, because it cannot be implemented. Just like death is an outcome of the cliff/breakfast stunt, a brutal regime with a failed economy is the outcome of the attempt of socialism in the Soviet Union.

Any attempt to implement socialism, especially on a grand scale, will run into basic facts of human nature that will prevent it from working out as planned. And then the socialist would say things such as, “it would have totally worked if only people behaved like we told them to.” But people just do not behave like the socialists want them to! They cannot. People work in favor of their own self interest. Even the socialists do! And that’s why, given the power, socialist governments become merely corrupt in some cases and also brutal murderous regimes in others.

To those who say that socialism has never been tried, the notion of socialism that has been “tried” is socialism whose goals have been achieved. And in this respect, they are right. Socialism has never been “tried”. And that’s because socialism is a dead end well before its goals are achieved.