Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

Under capitalism everybody provides for their own needs by serving others.

In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee's lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price.

During the 2300 years since Plato, very little opposition has been registered to his ideas.

Government means always coercion and compulsion and is by necessity the opposite of liberty. Government is a guarantor of liberty and is compatible with liberty only if its range is adequately restricted to the preservation of economic freedom. Where there is no market economy, the best-intentioned provisions of constitutions and laws remain a dead letter.

The whole of mankind's progress has had to be achieved against the resistance and opposition of the state and its power of coercion.

A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings.