>>5226941Socialism works best in industrialized nations, and we haven't finished industrialization until just before the first world war.
Not saying it doesn't work in non-industrialized nations and transform them into prosperous ones, just look at the USSR. It went from being a starved agrarian society into an industrialized one with science advanced enough to send a man to space and come back alive, all while experiencing the worst of the most destructive war in history.
Still, 1917 was the best time for a revolution in America.