Sure, if you want to avoid what definition a majority of people are utilizing in said discussion & sink the thread into another debate about semantics regarding what kind or what constitutes socialism.
It’s been proven that state-socialism is unworkable, time & time again. Whether stateless-socialism is unworkable could be debated (and has, and many also view it as non-workable), as well as if any currently existing activities of socialism (like say, in the family unit) provide an example that it might work on some level, which certainly wouldn’t be very large.
Institutionally, socialism has & always will fail, short & mid-term dellusions that ignore long-term implications of socialism have proven this in every execution in the past 20th century.
One does not even need to read Mises to see this at all, honestly. It just makes for better reading.