The tyranny imposed in societies where socialist doctrines became dominant was simply staggering, and beyond anything that could be blamed on foreign meddling.

The tyranny imposed in societies where socialist doctrines became dominant was simply staggering, and beyond anything that could be blamed on foreign meddling. This tyranny was all-encompassing because socialism demonizes entire classes of voluntary interaction on the basis that they are inherently exploitative, and thus despite all appears to the contrary, nonconsensual. Socialism is an ideological dogma instead of a sober commentary on reality. Because of this shoddy foundation, socialism ends up promoting subordination to the state and top-down order, and this is fundamentally less functional and more tyrannical than a society based on the principle of individual rights and emergent order.