Socialism is tyranny. It coerces personal behavior and restricts social interaction. It forbids most private businesses. Those it allows, it regiments. Socialism sets up government businesses – such as roads, transportation, utilities, schools, and healthcare – which cost a fortune and function poorly. It creates a bureaucracy with a maze of rules and an army of enforcers. Socialism enchains us, warps our minds, breaks our spirits, and blackens our souls, as it reduces us to serfs and slaves.
On the other hand, capitalism is freedom. It protects us from the attacks and coercion of criminals, foreign invaders, fascist police, dictatorial soldiers, and government enslavers. It allows all non-violent, non-thieving, non-coercive forms of personal and social behavior. It sees to it that all of your property, wealth, time, effort, interests, affections, heart, and soul are controlled by you and no-one else. Capitalism encourages, defends, and rewards free enterprise and free trade as it protects all voluntary and cooperative forms of human interaction. It forbids giant corporations from coercing us, acquiring political power, underfunding the government, or in any way becoming oligarchs or plutocrats. Capitalism makes us all rich, educates our minds, liberates our spirits, ennobles our souls, and exalts us to a lifestyle of kings and gods.
