Socialism will never work because it’s founded on emancipation, and you can’t force people to emancipate themselves. That would be the opposite of emancipation.
I’m not sure if this is a quote, I can’t remember where I heard it.
“Emancipation” in this case meaning emancipation from wage slavery.
Just because something is made a democracy in principle doesn’t mean it’s democracy in action.
Often these proto-democracies are more prone to corruptive influence because their populace is under-educated and eager for someone to give them easy answers to their problems.
That’s a major reason the US is in the state it is, despite there still being a great deal of political power in the hands of the populace.
Turkey still has issues because of the “dictated” democracy.
And a big part of why democracy didn’t stick in Germany after WW1 was because it was implemented too top-to-down too.