The Advocates for Self-Government 
Of all of the claims made by proponents of socialism, one of the most outlandish is that there is anything “revolutionary” about that ideology. For thousands of years, human history has been dominated by stories of conquest and domination. Even by 2025, societies that show a high regard for individual liberty and protection for property rights are the exception and not the rule. Socialism is simply one more flavor of the brutal authoritarianism that has been the norm for most of our time on earth.
What Socialists Say They Want… And What That Means
Proponents of socialism will tell you that they dream of an egalitarian society, and that getting there will require a massive redistribution of wealth. What they leave out are the ugly bits:
How is this egalitarianism to be enforced? Who is to do the redistributing? What happens to someone who doesn’t want their wealth “redistributed”? What if somebody wants more than their neighbor has and is willing to work for it? And what if someone else is willing to hire them to work? Who is going to step in and prevent this exchange between consenting adults? And more importantly, how?
Whether they intend it or not, whether they recognize it or not, the things socialists desire can only be brought about by a powerful authoritarian state.
It is no accident of history that the socialist experiments of the 20th century ended in brutal tyranny and mass starvation. Both are inherent in an ideology of enforced egalitarianism, and both were entirely predictable. (In fact, the failure of socialism was predicted by economists Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek in the 1920s.)
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