After all, they have from the beginning endured economic disaster and terrible deprivation. Ultimately, the death of communism has been brought about by its own spiritual failure. I am happy to accept this meaning, and insofar as I use the term, that is what I mean by it. When I say capitalist ideas are better, I mean precisely in their spiritual dimension. What few see, however, is their moral goodness.
Private property is bad.
Rent and interest are stolen from workers. Capitalists are all greedy, grasping, mean, and exploitative. By extension, wealth is considered ill- gotten and tainted. We need only document real cases of nasty capitalists and exploited workers, ignoring everything else, to make the case seem valid. Totalitarianism always requires a permanent enemy, a group to hate.