Yep, its why I don't like saying corrupt when arguing against communism. The problem with central planning is that even good and smart people can't really do it. Even with the best of moral intentions it ends is disaster.

Thankfully we aren't in that system but we have enough of it that we are just slowly killing ourselves. We haven't stopped taking the drugs, we just stopped taking so much of the drugs that destroy life and property. This is why the more close an economy is to no regulation by a state the better off they are in the long run.