Every totalitarian Communist considered themselves as a Socialist first and foremost.
Legislating morality grows big government immensely, and helps fashion the noose the government will use to ultimately hang you by.
The desire to engineer humanity is a sign of a mind warped by megalomania and lust for power.
Centrally planned economies are upended by out of control population. Their escape valve is eugenics.
Nine out of ten eugenicists in the 20th Century were also Progressives or Socialists, as central to the eugenic creed is the desire to engineer and centrally plan human reproduction and heredity. Thes...
The right to "liberty" and "pursuit" of happiness is incompatible with a government that makes choices for you.
A "centrally planned economy" by definition discourages and despises participation by the masses. It's a bureaucratic oligarchy.
The central planners of Democratic Socialism tighten their noose when people resist their plans and assert their rights. All Socialism is intended to devolve into Communism, and as a result, Totalitar...
Regulations in an "Idea Economy" are restraints on innovation.
Defy the central planners. Upend their designs for your life. Be a staunch individualist. Stand on your rights.
Capitalists desire purchasing power. Socialists lust for the power to plan society. Which is worse?