Socialism will never work because it’s founded on emancipation, and you can’t force people to emancipate themselves. That would be the opposite of emancipation.
I’m not sure if this is a quote, I can’t remember where I heard it.
“Emancipation” in this case meaning emancipation from wage slavery.
Socialism refers to worker ownership of the means of production, not “when the government does stuff”.
While politicians call anything the government does socialism, that doesn’t make it so.
No, that’s communism. Socialism is a different ism. Keep trying.
Communism is a stateless classless, moneyless society. Most communists see socialism as a prerequisite for communism
They share some similar ideology. That’s why the west adopted a lot of the good things communism was doing while trying to avoid the worse things. Hence, socialism.