There will always be socialists for the same reason there will always be corporate cronyists, which is the same reason there will always be thieves. As Rothbard explained:
“The great German sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that there are two mutually exclusive ways of acquiring wealth; one, the above way of production and exchange, he called the “economic means.” The other way is simpler in that it does not require productivity; it is the way of seizure of another’s goods or services by the use of force and violence. This is the method of one-sided confiscation, of theft of the property of others. This is the method which Oppenheimer termed “the political means” to wealth.”
Socialists, corporate cronyists, and thieves all use the politcal means.
Just as the poor will always be with us, so will those who choose the political means.
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