What do socialist believe in? Equality. What else? Crickets.
It is quite possible for a truly liberal society to ensure that its poorest members are well treated, and that difference is tolerated and negotiated. It is inevitable that any society with political freedom, free markets, contract law, and sound money will raise its poorest members out of poverty in short order.
But it is not possible, over the long haul, for socialism to do anything BUT evolve into tyranny. It is in the nature of the beast. It is made inevitable by the premise that equality is more important than outcome; that individual success can only be explained by factors other than individual effort, and superiority. To insist on egalitarianism is to reject in principle grades of morality, and that in turn is to reject in principle the possibility of individual moral growth, which is to reject morality in principle.
Once morality is rejected, power and conformity become the only possible values. One is seeing that here in Canada, just as it is being seen in Sweden in articles I linked to over the past few days. Sybaritic Leftism, the nice bambi, the “we just want to take care of our own”, inevitably has to mutate into Cultural Sadeism. That it does so in a context of permanent lies and deception merely fools the stupid.