The case of Spain's socialist government is paradigmatic.

They are the government that has increased pensions, the minimum wage, subsidies, the number of civil servants, and the number of people receiving subsidies the most, and yet every day life is worse, much worse than when we didn't spend so much on paying people to do nothing.

Strange, isn't it? According to the socialists/communists, this works.

Maybe they should stop reading Karl Marx and read Atlas Shrugged instead.