Socialism is an inherently wicked idea

Excellent quote from Claire Berlinski's There is No Alternative, page 7.

What she managed to do, more effectively than any other politician in history - including Ronald Reagan - was to convey a very particular message about socialism. It was not only that socialism was an economically inefficient way to organize human societies. It was not only that communist regimes had in the twentieth century drenched the world in blood. It was that socialism itself - was morally corrupting. Socialism turned good citizens into bad ones; it turned strong nations into weak ones; it promoted vice and discouraged virtue; and even when it did not lead directly to the Gulags, it transformed formerly hardworking and self-reliant men and women into whining, weak and flabby loafers. Socialism was not a fine idea that had been misapplied; it was an inherently wicked idea."

Oh that the Brits and we Americans would recognize this screamingly obvious truth once again.