Why didn’t socialism take off in England as it did in Germany and other industrialized countries?

Socialism does not work because it is not consistent with fundamental principles of human behavior. The failure of socialism in countries around the world can be traced to one critical defect: it is a system that ignores incentives. Under socialism, incentives either play a minimal role or are ignored totally.

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