Re: Socialism
"Whether it's ever been actually tried anywhere in the world is open to debate."
Indeed, just because you have heard socialists and comunists praising the regimes in some countries during the last hundred years, doesn't mean those regimes were implementing socialism.
After all, when they can no longer deny those countries have been, pretty much, destroyed they will insist on how those regimes had nothing whatsover to do with it.
Nothing at all, of course not.
After all, there are still many countries to destroy while they learn to implement it right.