I find it bizarre how many people, talking about socialism/communism paint it through the lens of the Russian Revolution, as though we’d just be living in Eastern European industrial economies all of a sudden. 

Political systems look different in any given context (technological era, geopolitical setting, location)

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Generally, that's just disingenuousness. People pretend that time, technology, and other relevant context aspects do not matter because it simplifies the path to their desired conclusion.

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Precisely. And this is to say nothing of the constant conflations of the word “socialism” with either National Socialism (Fascism) or Leninism/Stalinism (highly centralized power structures in bizarre hybrid of syndicalism and industrial capitalism, with two world wars in the middle)