>>771102Because they're the ones living it, and see there's no revolutionary potential in the US, let alone an industrial planned socialist economy that is specifically Marxist Leninist
Take for example the pharmacy tariffs. It sounds socdem done right. Either give Americans the cheapest possible prices or pay le'tariff.
Capitalists aren't stupid, they'll just pay the tariff. It's less overcharge on their part, so really it's just "do the right but unprofitable thing, or bribe me to look the other way" which is the only winning attitude but normal people won't do it.
How would you effectively create a planned economy from what you're starting out with? You think it's just some foreign investors? What about the hospitals who buy exorbently priced utilities? What about the pharmacies themselves? The doctors who went to medical school for ten years? A lot of people have their bread and butter at stake and they ain't gonna halve their net worth just to be nice. That's not even utopian, that's just stupid.
You will not have socialism unless you lose everything. Your grids go down, gang violence in the street, total instability and from the ground up rebuild. Even than, it'll undoubtedly be a fascistic toned counter revolution because look at Americans.
You're just fucked. Let tankie kiddies romanticize brown people with guns. It's all they have.