Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez:

“… every day I’m more convinced that socialism is the kingdom of God on Earth.”

The most frightening thing isn’t that Chavez can believe in something so discredited by history, but that the American president believes the same thing.

Back in 2007 at Greenville, South Carolina, Barack Obama told a congregation, “I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”

I suggest reading the book Heaven on Earth by Joshua Muravchik to get a good idea of what a socialist ‘heaven’ looks like in practice. Without fail, every movement in history that tried to create a heaven on earth ended up creating something closer to hell, because the underlying utopian/postmodernist philosophy of socialist politics allows them to rationalize evil.

For further reading:

Communism: A History by Richard Pipes

Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum

The Black Book Of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois, et al.

The Fatal Conceit: The Errors Of Socialism by F. A. Hayek

The End Of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, And Political Morality In The Twentieth Century by Paul Hollander