My therapist made a comment about how China is a failed socialist experiment because they have 2-3 year olds working in factories. I responded “So we’ve been told.” She looks at me like I’m crazy. (Not a great look for a therapist) “I’ve not seen any evidence of that.”
“Because they’re such a closed country!”
“Which means you have no evidence to your point either?”
“Well, missionaries… anyway!”
A lot of people in western countries think socialism is basically a hippie commune where it’s all carrots and no sticks in society. And the system isn’t really changed by the revolution, it just has the currently bad parts ripped out: cops, prisons, bosses, ownership class, etc. are removed and society operates on trust and goodwill instead.
Imperial core-style anarchists unfortunately encourage this interpretation.
Under her understanding of socialism one would require a lot of faith in every one for an imaginary system like that to work.