In practice, the Utopian urge always elbows aside moral controls and quickly turns into a lust for power. Also elbowed aside are usually millions of innocent people who don t fit the plan. This explains holocausts and genocides. Rather, it achieves most of its goals by propaganda and systematic efforts to control people s thoughts. It is, Evans tells us, more a form of fascism than communism.
Communists shoot their undesirables and are done with it.
In one topic after another, Evans applies basic analysis and common horse sense to the claims of doctrinaire liberalism. He isn t an ivory-tower academic, and doesn t write like one. He doesn t use footnotes on every page. But anyone so inclined can find the references that support nearly every one of Evans arguments. Occasionally, though, he makes a recommendation that bothers me.