you are confusing socialism and communism.
Are you unaware that the UK, New Zealand, Australia etc thrived as socialist countries.
More recently these same counties have been adopting the US style fascism where prison population are treated as slaves working for pennies per day working in a fascist profit center along with health care and education.

The US has increasingly resembled more of a communist state since the murder of JFK by the deep state and now the rest are following.
How can you account for the state funding Google, Amazon? this is how communism works, hand outs to big business so they fuck everyone else over.

The very opposite of democracy