Only humans can cooperate.  There is nothing but violence if we don’t cooperate.  There is no other means available.  It’s either cooperation or violence.  We either have common goals to increase our standard of living, or engage in violent appropriation to increase the standard of living for a few at the expense of many.  It’s impossible to have it both ways.  Capitalism requires cooperation.  Statism requires violence.

Capitalism is voluntary cooperation.  This voluntary cooperation unleashed human initiative.  Statism is violence and requires complete submission.  Human initiative is destroyed—a byproduct of destroying the individual.  Statism requires a grim apparatus to carry out these evil laws.  Monuments and other buildings may be built, but they’re always paid for by its subjects.  What could’ve been built is never seen.

There is no limit to the violence tyrants can carry out.  They will keep taking freedoms if freedoms are given.  Few are courageous enough to object.  Any expansion of violence is mislabeled to confuse the masses.  It’s impossible to defend violence by being honest.  These so-called good intentions are relabeling terms to make them sound beneficial: violence is non-violence, coercion is freedom, up is down, left is right.

There is a complete willingness to destroy.  Violence is still violence, even if it had been relabeled.  Statism is getting some to cooperate in carrying out violence.  Successful endeavors are the result of cooperation—not of violence.  People appreciate cooperation, freedom, liberty, etc., in the abstract but not in practice.  Capitalism increases our standard of living.  Statism destroys it by brute force.

Enslavement is not an accidental feature of statism.  The statist doctrine advocates violence and praises slothfulness.  Support for statism around the world has reached an unprecedented level—maybe a few exceptions.  The tyrants’ orders are to be followed from cradle to grave.  You are free under capitalism.  You are a slave under statism.  How do you want to live?  Do you support freedom or slavery; cooperation or violence?

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Economic Freedom and Interventionism