There are two reasons that socialism and communism are making a return to the same society where their ideologies were put on trial during the ‘50s.

First is that most Americans are largely apathetic and don’t know better. Second is that politicians and journalists are playing on the credulity of the general public. 

A third problem is that proponents of capitalism often make efficiency rather than moral arguments. I, myself, am guilty of this.

For most people, the moral arguments are what wins a political or economic discussion.

As I have already pointed out, the theft from the wealthy of their hard earned money is abject immorality, and those practices are at the root of socialist and communist policies. “(the theft) from each according to their ability, to each according to their need,” according to Karl Marx.

As Arthur Brooks, author and founder of the American Enterprise Institute has said “We have to argue for the rights of the poor, and fight for the system that lifts them up by the BILLIONS.”

Between 1970 and 2010, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been reduced by about 80 percent, according to Brooks.

What can explain this? Not the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund or U.S. foreign aid.  

“It was globalization, free trade, entrepreneurship, property rights, and the rule of law spreading around the world,” according to Brooks.

To quote Marx again, he stated “the theory of communism may be summarized in one sentence: abolish all private property.”

How then can anyone who claims socialism or communism are good then claim to have a moral edge over me, a mere capitalist? 

Their ideas and practices are the antithesis of morality and have been responsible for the impoverishment and death of millions in Venezuela, Cuba, China, North Korea, and Soviet Russia, just to name a few.

For those of my peers who care about lifting the next billion people out of poverty, I invite you to to join me and Arthur Brooks. Fight for liberty, the freedom of individuals and of the economic market.