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May sound good on paper, but everywhere where it was tried, nothing good happened. There is something in human nature that makes it inefficient and have tendency to become dictatorial state. Socialism (in classical sense) is just worse system in practice, as many countries in 20th century demonstrated.
If I try to grow some tomatoes, and by the time they're sprouting out of the ground, my neighbor tramples them and lights them on fire, does that mean that I can't ever grow tomatoes and they're doomed to fail?
No, but that's not quite an accurate portrayal of the history of collectivist governance.
So this is just a coincidence?