Before the staunchly communist Freda Utley left for the USSR in the 30s, Bertrand Russel, her godfather, cautioned her not to delude herself that any flaws in t

Before the staunchly communist Freda Utley left for the USSR in the 30s, Bertrand Russel, her godfather, cautioned her not to delude herself that any flaws in the society were because of poor implementation by the Russias. Whatever she saw there was socialism he said. Russel, of course, was aligned with the left his entire life. Since then socialism (per Marx defined as the nationalization of all but private effects) has been independently tried to the same ruinous effect. Every socialist regime is unique, because they all try to explain and fix why the others failed; uniquely brutal reaching it's zenith with Pol Pot.