This sounds like a book worth reading, especially for those in college - fat chance that will ever happen.
Here’s the money quote IMHO: “Marx and Engels promised a withering away of the state. But ‘perversely, their path to eliminating the state was to create a monstrous, overbearing, and monolithic state.’”
Free market capitalism ends at the border. Sorry Free Traitors™ but that is the way it works.
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Capitalism is compatible with a rational metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics. Socialism contradicts them.
This will be worthwhile reading.
I recommend Hillsdale College's "A Capitalist Manifesto", understanding the market economy and defending liberty. It accompanies a free on-line course, Economy 101.
The first lines of the Communist Manifesto “There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of over production...”
The Capitalist Manifesto- “It’s that “over production” which is responsible for creating the highest standard of living ever and the surplus value that enabled the education of a civilization based upon technology, that is haunting the wreckage called Marxism...”
The man whose public spirit is prompted altogether by humanity and benevolence, will respect the established powers and privileges eVen of individuals, and still more those of the great orders and societies, into which the state is divided . . .The man of system, on the contrary, is apt to be very wise in his own conceit; and is often so enamoured with the supposed beauty of his own ideal plan of government, that he cannot suffer the smallest deviation from any part of it. He goes on to establish it completely and in all its parts, without any regard either to the great interests, or to the strong prejudices which may oppose it. He seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board. He does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it. If those two principles coincide and act in the same direction, the game of human society will go on easily and harmoniously, and is very likely to be happy and successful. If they are opposite or different, the game will go on miserably, and the society must be at all times in the highest degree of disorder.
Some general, and even systematical, idea of the perfection of policy and law, may no doubt be necessary for directing the views of the statesman. But to insist upon establishing, and upon establishing all at once, and in spite of all opposition, every thing which that idea may seem to require, must often be the highest degree of arrogance . . .