Mikeoxenormous
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The Road to Serfdom - WikipediaNonsense.
First of all, the Bolsheviks, Nazis, Fascists, Maoists, etc. were all capitalists and not at all remotely socialist in any way.
Socialism has to be communal, collective, and cooperative, while these groups you listed were all profit motivated, wealthy elite instead.
Sure "no government has to force anyone to be a capitalist", but that is not how it works.
Capitalist want profits, so use their capital in order to buy weapons and hire mercenaries, so that they can become government. Like the East India Trade company, which was owned by the British aristocracy. They invaded and took over the government of countries like India, China, etc.
All dictatorship are always capitalist.
Stalin was a dictator, so then obviously he was a capitalist, motivated by the un-communist profits he was able to force from others.
If not prevented by a communal government, all capitalists would just extort and steal instead of sell for only marginal profits. All dictatorships are capitalists, and all democracies have socialist restrictions on capitalism.
the danger of tyranny that inevitably results from government control of economic decision-making through central planning."[8] He further argues that the abandonment of individualism and classical liberalism inevitably leads to a loss of freedom, the creation of an oppressive society, the tyranny of a dictator, and the serfdom of the individual. Hayek challenged the view, popular among British Marxists, that fascism (including Nazism) was a capitalist reaction against socialism. He argued that fascism, Nazism and socialism had common roots in central economic planning and empowering the state over the individual.