The False Doctrines of Socialism
Friedrich Hayek, in his prophetic work The Road to Serfdom ( 1944) , cautioned us about the perils of socialism. He warned that when governments, under the guise of progress, deliberately transform scientific distinctions into economic divisions, the path to the communist state is already underway.[ 1] Why must society intimidate its wise and wealthy, those who build and innovate, in the name of creating a better order? And why is it treated as a sacred duty to glorify those who foolishly believe that central socialist planning can architect the perfection of society? For socialism, in truth, is built upon this very act of deception and coercion. Communism is a paradoxical creed — it both terrifies and seduces. And when it falls into the hands of the corrupt, the disaster becomes “gilded ruin,” suffering wrapped in shining slogans. It is a boundless Atlantic of misery without horizon or shore. The naïve utopians who once believed soon collapse into despair, an...