1.   But now even those are falling into short supply, as the socialist paradise their leaders always described now seems to be grinding to a halt.

2.   In the socialist paradise that failed, art was supposed to join the battle to create a new classless utopia on its unstable antecedent, capitalism.

3.   Look a bit closer, though, and all does not appear well in this socialist paradise.

4.   The same sort of damning comparisons can be drawn in any place that is not a socialist paradise, of course.