Quote Originally Posted by Psaw View Post
FREEDOM v dictatorship. There is no difference between any dictator and socialism.
Socialism certainly isn't a voluntary system. Some countries use hard-line dictatorship to enforce it, while others use a softer approach that maintains some illusion of freedom, but the underlying control methods are still there.

I often think that the leaders of socialist countries are the best exemplars of why the doctrine doesn't work. They always seem to find a way of being first amongst supposed equals, living a privileged, protected, sometimes even palatial existence far removed from their 'comrades'.