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Indeed, socialism does not work. Call it National Socialism, Soviet Socialism, Sino-Socialism, Communism, Italian Fascism and beyond, and the same is proven again and again.

A Lefty of my acquaintance tried to debate "socialism versus capitalism." I observed that "capitalism" was a preoccupation with those writing about it -- as in Marx' Das Kapital and Piketty's Capitalism in the Twenty-first Century -- tried to pretend it was a "thing."

But the real opposition is not between socialism in any of its forms and clever word play and an erected opposition as the Left sees it is that the real opposition is between authoritarian government and liberty.

Liberty is not an economic system, but it is highly productive. And socialism in all its forms detest that. Liberty annoys the Left. It certainly annoyed the Lefty with whom I debated. He had no effective response, because he needed a straw man against which to contend.

The conflict is between socialism in any and all of its forms and liberty. Plain and simple.