I agree with some of the points that you make here. Socialism, like any other group in power, is only as good as the people in charge.

Thank you for making this point crystal clear, for people who want to confuse, conflate labels, and throw all groups of people and systems into the same basket. It is my opinion, that corruption stems from the individuals in 'charge' the overwhelming majority of the time and not the 'system' itself, although that does play a role in being able to create the self interest and corruption. Their are endless examples of political opposition campaigns that base themselves on the 'opposite' side of a sitting government, and then only repeat the same or extremely similar policies, with the appearance of a different 'mask'. That is of course only speaking for myself and where I live. I do however see this as a consistent worldwide phenomenon, from my personal perspective and observations.

I sincerely recommend you start writing more opinion and philosophical pieces, based on your comments in this thread. You sound well informed and knowledgeable on these matters!

I think this video shows how 'groups' of powerful people, use a lot of 'systems' to suit themselves and their crony partners. The reality is, most of them lead to the same trough.