Ideas are what matters.  It is a massive mistake to think experiments will overcome the evils in statism.  Using facts and logic won’t convince opponents either.  Facts and logic are based on the ideas the individual holds.  The statists will blame the failure of statism on everything but the system.  The statists have selective hearing and seeing.  They’re completely blind to the evils of statism.  Correct ideas have lost the battle.

Ideas don’t just appear from the firmament.  Ideas originate in a human’s mind.  The new idea is placed into the mind of others.  The ones that play on emotion are the most effective.  It’s not the cool and reasoned ideas that have won out.  The state monopolizes the school system and issues these ideas to all.  At this point, few are capable of independent reflection.  The statist ideas now seem resolute.

The ideas of statism are the dominant ideas of the time.  This hasn’t just happened over the last few years.  This is over a century of bad ideas.  Intellectual guidance is needed.  These evil ideas haven’t won out because the masses spontaneously thought of them.  They come from patient zero, and are spread to the secondhand dealers in ideas, then the masses adopt these.  Statism is pure destruction, but it began as an idea.

It wouldn’t be long before the masses forget these if the so-called intellectuals abandoned statism.  These false prophets fill the masses’ souls with filth.  The displacement of evil ideas must come by replacing them with correct ideas.  These ideas do exist, but they have lost the battle.  Reason and facts haven’t won out against emotion.  Few understand private property, and its these ideas that must be spread.

Evil ideas are branded by a different name, but they are the same ideas.  The main difference is the speed at which these ideas move.  Statist ideas are not noble, beautiful, and just.  They will not bring about a utopia.  These ideas are evil, ugly, and unjust.  The overlords want you to live hand to mouth.  Correct ideas must win, or society will be ruined.  We must spread correct ideas and not let the evil ideas win out while they have young and impressionable minds.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis