It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. They are thought. To view ideas as mere commodities is to cheapen them and is akin to claiming possession of the air that we breathe.
Censorship remains one of the most treasured powers of authoritarians.
Kill the ideas and the people who hold them, and then you may eventually destroy the thoughts themselves. They don't even know WHY they are against socialism. They just are. Rather, ideas come from studying and understanding what came before and adding your own insights to it. To claim possession of an idea is to freeze it in time, to deny the work of the people before and cut it off from the free exchange of ideas that marks all true innovation.