The problem is that socialism means thwarting capitalism, yet capitalism is the only sound economic foundation existing today. In order to work, socialism requires forcing the individual to avoid the natural inclination toward the marketplace. In other words, it can only exist through repression.
Since its rise, capitalism has proven the most powerful creative force history has ever seen. Far from sowing the seeds of its own destruction, as Dubcek’s Marxist masters believed it would, capitalism has prevailed over every system that has tried to supplant it.
In order to force the economic system from its natural course, the state must apply force to its economic actors. Just as gravity continually asserts itself, so socialism’s contradiction between economic theory and practice widens, and the need for political repression grows. A human face can never be put over that contradiction. It is for that reason that the most inhuman faces are sadly likely to be most successful in confronting the contradiction.
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