This is the age of enlightened totalitarianism.  It’s characterized by inflation, wars, control, and hatred of human innovation.  It’s nearly unchallenged that capitalism is bad.  Progress is not a result of bureaucrats.  Our standard of living can only increase from capital accumulation.  The standard of living doesn’t rise from legislation, regulation, taxation, and printing money.  It’s impossible that any of those can contribute to progress.

We still progress in spite of all of the damage done by bureaucrats.  Growth doesn’t occur from legislation, regulation, taxation, and printing money.  Growth occurs in spite of those.  Those impede growth.  Therefore, growth could be greater, much greater.  Growth is an achievement of humans cooperating.  It doesn’t come from one human impeding another, or worse.  Statism is about the impediment of progress.

Political parties don’t oppose the division of humans.  They oppose how much humans are divided.  The difference is in degree, not in kind.  The increase in capital doesn’t come into existence from a political party.  The increase in capital comes from humans producing more.  Not from humans taking away from you.  One political party doesn’t change the amount of capital in existence.

Bureaucrats are exclusively preoccupied with government control.  Some may even believe this is a panacea.  They can make you believe this too with the sad state of education.  They see very little worth in all others.  Yet, it’s the “all others” that produce everything.  Not just most, everything.  The only way to increase your standard of living is to increase the amount of capital, and this is what humans try to do.

The only way to achieve durable peace is through capitalism.  Statism is institutional violence.  Wars and violence are unending under statism.  We can’t allow this to be the age of enlightened totalitarianism.  We must start using logic.  The dogma that capitalism is bad must be nullified.  The court intellectuals will push that statism is the answer to the world’s ills.  This is backwards.  Statism is the catalyst for ills.  Capitalism is the solution. 

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis