> That is what COMECON was supposed to solve, but if you aggregate a heap of losers, you won't create a winning team.

What kind of disingenuous argument is that? Existence of COMECON doesn't neutralize the enormous disadvantage and economic pressure of having sanctioned imposed on you.

> Of that infinite number

I'm glad we agree that Soviet communism is not synonymous with "socialism".

> Aside from that one, worker cooperatives of more than 1000 people are rare birds.

You're applying pointless capitalist metrics to non-capitalist organizations and moralizing about how they don't live up to them.

> No one in the former socialist bloc will experiment with that quagmire again.

You're experimenting with socialist policies and values right now, you just don't want to call it by that name because of your weird fixation. Do public healthcare, transport, education, social security benefits ring any bells?

If you talked to people from ex-Yugoslavia, you'd know that many would be happy to return to that time.

> We should stop trying to ride dead horses.

We should stop declaring horses extinct when it's just your own horse that has died.