Wow this is genuinely a brilliant post. I never thought of this myself in that way.
So basically, when a socialist state “fails” it’s when the people ignore the public structures in place and revert back to more capitalistic ways which are considered corruption in a socialist society but not a capitalist one (except for rare exceptions).
I know it’s because of the crop but the fact that there is one less visible bomb for the democrats makes this even funnier.