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With Socialism, there can be success, no corruption, and equal prosperity.
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Socialism is also specifically not based on equal prosperity - it's meant to be based on merit based prosperity e.g.: "to each according to his contribution". Or to put it another way, if you work harder and contribute more than someone else, you should get paid more and be more prosperous. If you want equal prosperity then that's communism or anarchism.
On the flip side however it seems impossible to argue that there isn't success in socialism. You can say there's less success or the success is bad for whatever reason but trying to say that no-one succeeds by any metric whatsoever - from the leader of the country to award winning scientists to people who just live ordinary happy lives - seems insane.
Overall I think you are trying to judge Socialism on very poor metrics.
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The real question is what outcome the system favors, what opportunities people gain to reach the desired outcome, and how the society under socialism as a whole is going to function in real life. Both theoretical and historical analysis give a pretty well defined answer to this question.
Take an ordinary, say, Cuban refugee in the US. Does this Cuban find a heaven on Earth with no issues and with prosperity in everyone's hands when he steps on the American soil the first time? No. This Cuban will see the homeless, he will see the bureaucrats who fail to process his asylum request in time and extend it as much as they can in order to justify their salary, he will see millionaires on Ferraris blasting through streets with broken pavement and beggars lined up across the road.
But at the same time, he will see that the vast majority of people enjoy a very luxurious quality of life, compared to what he is used to. He will see that he is free to pick some berries in the forest and go to the central square and sell them for cash, without being immediately arrested for private enterpreneurship (which, until recently, was a serious crime in Cuba). He will see that he can criticize the government publicly and even organize vocal demonstrations against the local authorities, without as much as a hint at a violent retaliation. He will see that the grocery stores are full of goodies, as opposed to semi-empty stores he is used to from his Cuban experiences. He will see that people live in modern homes with Internet, stable electricity and air conditioning - as opposed to ancient clay slums he used to live in.
Will this Cuban conclude that every single person in the US lives better than every single person on Cuba? Of course not. Some Cubans are better off than some Americans. But what is the general trend? When 98% Americans live better than 98% Cubas, and when such disparity can be seen when comparing any developed capitalist country to any developed or not socialist country - then the preferred system becomes obvious, even if the preferences do not apply to every single individual. A homeless is a homeless, no matter where, after all. The American homeless will be better off than the Cuban homeless in general, but both lead pretty miserable lives.
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If the state is the legal owner of all land, property and work, which it must be in order for it to have the right to distribute it equally among the people, there must be people in charge of it.
People are not infallible, quite the opposite, and that amount of power and control in the hands of a few will always breed corruption. Unless you can find a group of ideologically pure, moral and just people to run the system there is always a risk of corruption. Even if it is only .01% given enough time there will be a failure and corruption in the system.
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