Socialism is about claims of justice, and it is also about money: about wealth, income, physical and financial capital. It is an ideology based on allocating economic resources. It may try to achieve that goal by nationalizing assets, by command-and-control regulation, or by taxation and redistribution.

The goal of socialism is a fairer allocation of economic resources, which its advocates often claim will also be a less wasteful one. Socialism is about who gets the goods and how. Socialism objects to markets because markets allocate resources in ways socialists believe to be unfair on both counts: both the who and the how.

Until now, no ideology could resist a capital.

Socialism is not a meritocracy. By definition it places increasingly confining restraints on those that succeed the most.

The evergreen story of people in debt becomes even sexier in an economic downturn, when debts inevitably get harder to pay.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.