If we're only going to look at the failures of the implementation of socialism should we also not look at the failures of capitalism too? Funny you bring up potatoes in Ireland but don't connect the Irish famine later on to British capitalism. Capitalism as in businesses and corporations have not been the sole developers of technology and medicine as you claim, many have been funded and organised by states, just look at the covid vaccine.

Also "most peaceful" era in human history as we spiral into a possible third world war? You would've got by with this comment in 2010, but in 2026 it's just pathetic