If you haven't heard, things in Venezuela are getting rather revolutionary. The inevitable violent ending of a socialist utopia is, once again, rearing its ugly head. How many times does it take for something to utterly fail before people realize, that just maybe, it won't work; no matter how much you want it to.
It isn't that socialism by itself can never work, it absolutely can work in small scale environments. But, a nation is by no means, small scale. If you are one of those seize-the-means, or I-want-free-stuff types then move to a small community. As it is in the small community that socialism will only ever work.
There are multiple reasons for this, but the main one is the accessibility of the citizenry -- townsfolk, the people, etc. -- to their designated leaders. In a socialist nation it is inevitable that the power structure will become disgustingly corrupt. When a large scale governing body gets power, it then becomes that governing body's main priority to keep it -- by any means necessary.
In small scale socialism, the leaders are no different from anybody else and the people can easily make contact with them. In large scale socialism, the leaders are far above the common fold. People thus require special permission, rank, power, influence, or wealth to make contact with leaders. In large structures such as this, the elites have many a safety net to keep the rabble away from their doorstep.
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