Socialists suffer from several delusions:
- They believe that good is universal—that is, that everyone values the same things the same way, and so everyone has the same goals
- They believe that it is possible for wise men (themselves, of course) to deduce and/or infer what our goals should be, and the best ways to achieve them—and to do so in a way that is right/optimal for everyone
- They believe that anyone who disagrees with their wise conclusions is either misinformed, insufficiently educated in how to reason, mentally deficient, or just evil
Together, these delusions serve as the foundational axioms of the totalitarian fallacy.
And of course Point 3 stands in contradiction to Point 1, thus invalidating there assumptions. Now, they admit to operating off of “lies”.