"Everyone may be called "comrade," but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades." - Thomas Sowell

Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theory or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The key feature of Communist propaganda has been the depiction of people who are more productive as mere exploiters of others.

the fact that crime and poverty are correlated is automatically taken to mean that poverty causes crime, not that similar attitudes or behavior patterns may contribute to both poverty and crime.