cf. Waiting for the Revolutionary Vanguard to usher in Utopia or for Jesus or the Mahdi to come back and establish the Millennium.

At least with liberalism, someone is milking the cows in the meantime.

Cowpitalism. No? I tried

i too am a luddite

Socialism

1. You're a student in a big beautiful city. After graduation, you became a doctor. Now you are sent to a village far away from home to live and work there. And you can't say "no" because the state knows better where you should live.

2. You're a successful plant director, and you are sent to build a big collective farm. You are OK with moving far away because the state needs you there. After some time, you're told NKVD is searching for you. You say: "It's a nonsense, I did nothing wrong, it's a mistake." Later, you are executed because an anonymous letter against you is enough.

3. You're a little girl in a village. The state took away all food, so there's nothing to eat. Parents send you to the field after harvesting to search for ears of wheat. Adults are executed if they are caught with three ears of wheat, but children are safe, so you regurly go to the field. But it's not enough, and your parents dig rotten potato, grind it to make potato flour, and bake rotten potato bread. It tastes so awful that you refuse to eat it. Parents try to force you to eat that bread, but you tell them that if they keep trying to force you, you're not going to the field anymore.

4. You're a communist. You know that people disappear at night. But you believe it's ok because you are told they are bad people hurting the state and society. They are not just people. They are pests.