The individual simply identifies the products of his own reasoning with the shaky notion of an absolute reason. Every socialist is a disguised dictator. The market economy makes peaceful cooperation among people possible in spite of the fact that they disagree with regard to their value judgments. In the plans of the socialists there is no room left for dissenting views. Their principle is Gleichschaltung , perfect uniformity enforced by the police.
People frequently call socialism a religion.
It is indeed the religion of self-deification. The State and Government of which the planners speak, the People of the nationalists, the Society of the Marxians and the Humanity of Comte's positivism are name for the God of the new religions. But all these idols are merely aliases for the individual reformer's own will. In ascribing to his idol all those attributes which the theologians ascribe to God. It is infinitely good, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, eternal.