My friend who was born under communism used to regularly remind me that one of the problems with these utopian schemes dreamt up by the Western left is that they are generally formulated by individuals who have never experienced the lived reality of the revolutionary process and, as such, have not taken on board the lesson that revolutions never bring about the imagined circumstances which the initial instigators of the project originally conceive of implementing, regardless of how well planned they are. Curtis touches upon this in Pandora's Box.