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 "ok, let's burn everything down"
"fucking capitalists!"

or

"ok, let's enslave the people who understand the machines"
"fucking capitalists, they think they are better than us!" 
 LOL and that kids is how you get breadlines 
 The Soviet Union did a pretty solid job of running the machines. It was WHEN to run the machines and WHAT to make with them that they struggled with, lacking a price mechanism.

Most modern Western socialists don't want to run any machines at all. Too bluecollar. They want you to do it for them. 
 Then comes the starvation and cannibalism