I would much prefer to bring them down as soon as possible. I think they’ve made the biggest financial mess that any government’s ever made in this country for a very long time, and Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. It’s quite a characteristic of them. They then start to nationalise everything, and people just do not like more and more nationalisation, and they’re now trying to control everything by other means. They’re progressively reducing the choice available to ordinary people.
Margret Thatcher February 5, 1976
Bringing them down is easier said than done. The world has been struggling with them for over 125 years now. Even though socialists, and their ideological kin the communists, have murdered over 200,000,000 of their own citizens there are still 100s of millions of people clamoring for more. Then there is the tremendous economic and ecological damage these political systems add to the rivers of blood they create. No right-thinking person can defend this history. Yet this cancer is still gnawing away. It seems to never give up.
236 years. Beginning date was 1789. Possible to argue for an earlier date but this was the first regime. Not sure where you got 125 years.
Australian Labor Party, 1899. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_socialism