[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty. - Alan Charles Kors

The critical thing, I mean, what I would keep my eye on, is private property. If the state can take away property that you owned, that you've lived on, and give it to a developer because that's good for economic development, not to mention the developer gives lots of money to the local politicians, if private property goes, then in my view there is no safeguard whatsoever, and I would always keep my eye on the relationship with government to private property.

Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.

I don't think that you can impose liberal societies from the outside.