I am a person who is as calm as a cat. I have read different kinds of books like travelogues, comic sketches of life and science fiction. I used to listen to BBC World Service radio, Radio Netherlands and All India Radio Vividh Bharati Service. Other such things. So my horizons are broad enough.
I imagine others like Kanhaiya Kumar and Shehla Rashid are calm and practical like me. And I wish they joined this forum.
The USSR was an experiment, just like all socialist societies.
Besides, do you really believe that free healthcare and education are bad ?
There was a plan in Libya just before the war, to set up a tax-free city that would invite the intellects of the world to set up offices and industry there for the benefit of Libya and generally the world.
Unnecessarily ?
But how will that advancement come when there are people like
@Soumitra who believe that before helping the poor one should do cost-benefit analysis ? And there are still primitive practices like honor killings and enforced murders like suicides ?
Socialism is a way to change social conduct as much as political and economic conduct.
So if not by socialism how do you plan to change society, knowing that most of the middle class is apathetic ?