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Well... this is more about purity of form... my descriptions above are what happens when each form is taken to its exclusive extreme, so it's not necessarily distopian, it's the consequences of reality.

If you had even one perfectly benevolent person you could have a perfectly benevolent dictatorship, though it would still have scaling problems when the one person can't handle every issue that comes up. If everyone were perfectly benevolent then pure collectivism could work, though there's also a scaling problem if every person must participate in decision-making for every problem all the time.

Rigid adherence to any structure becomes its own sort of totalitarianism. None of these can really be good (or utopian) in itself, the only really good option is to keep the structure itself flexible, but with a strong enough set of guiding principles to prevent local abuses.