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.
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.