Top 10 Questions to Ask a
Socialist



1.     
Doesn’t“Nazi” mean
National Socialism?


2.     
Why do socialist
regimes often find it necessary to prevent its citizens from leaving the
country, whereas capitalist countries never do?


3.     
Why is there, every
year, a net emigration out of socialist countires and into capitalist
countires?


4.     
What is the
difference between socialism and slavery? In both cases, isn’t there someone
else making all the decisions and forcing you to live your life in a particular
way?


5.     
Why do socialist
countires always find it necessary to ignore (or fabricate) empirical data? To
re-write their history?


6.     
Why don’t you
scoialists just live in a little commune (with other like-minded individuals)
within a capitalist country, where you are free to do so? (Note that the reverse
is impossible.)


7.     
Isn’t it extremely
elitist to advocate a form of government in which the ruling class is so smart
that it can make the best decisions for everyone, while everyone else is so
stupid that they can’t be trusted to make any decisions for
  themselves?


8.     
If capitalism is so
bad, why is there practically a 1:1 relationship between a given coutry’s degree
of prosperity and its degree of cpitalism?


9.     
What do you have
against unfettered cooperation, which is what capitalism really is? That is to
say, why can’t you allow humans to enter into any and all arrangements with each
other that they mind mutally agreeable and beneficial?


10. 
On what basis do you
maintain that I am my brother’s keeper? What moral grounds give me the right to
force any other human to live for my
sake?