king tony is a very high level meme lord.
any full-scale attempt at socialism devolves into state capitalism, a massively inefficient system which has either very poor general conditions or requires a class of slaves to combat the massive inefficiencies. every livable modern "communist" state (ussr and onward) used slave/prison labor in disproportionately larger amounts than any modern free-market capitalist society has (although america did have slavery 2 centuries ago, we literally started killing slavery supporters until they stopped and the free market was efficient enough to continue operating without slave labor). but nevertheless, though it is far smaller in scale than USSR or modern china, the US still has an enormous government-sanctioned prison-industrial complex. i see this more of a failure of the government rather than capitalism
