Socialism leads to the same type of authoritarian state as Theocracy. It appears that liberty is bound up with imperfection, with a right to imperfection.Nikolai Berdyaev, The End of Our Time (1919), as translated by Donald Atwater (1933), p.Socialists take over from bourgeois capitalist society its materialism, its atheism, its cheap prophets, its hostility against the spirit and all spiritual life, its restless striving for success and amusement, its personal selfishness, its incapacity for interior recollection.Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy (c.Universal plunder.-We have been threatened by this system when the elective privilege has become universal the masses having conceived the idea of making law, on the principle of legislators who had preceded them.Ībsence of plunder.-This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, conciliation, and of good sense. ![]() Partial plunder.-This is the system which prevailed so long as the elective privilege was partial a system which is resorted to, to avoid the invasion of socialism. The law can only produce one of these results. Partial plunder, universal plunder, absence of plunder, amongst these we have to make our choice. It is absolutely necessary that this question of legal plunder should be determined, and there are only three solutions of it:-Ģ. In this you will not succeed, I venture to prophesy, so long as legal plunder is the basis of the legislation within. ![]() You would keep it outside the Legislative Palace. You wish to prevent it from taking any part in the making of laws. It aspires to legal, not extra-legal plunder…. But it is the law which socialism invokes. ![]() It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. Then they say that we are against equality. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
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