"It just so happens that I think socialism is wrong, and even if you showed me what advantages it might have (pragmatically), you will need to first show me that my moral judgment of the system is wrong. I judge it as morally wrong based on the fact that for it to be justified there has to be the assumption that the individual is not the real owner of his 'own' life (or property). If government is allowed to state how much I can sell my newly invented radio for (just because they do not want the poor to be 'exploited'), then government owns my product, which means that government owns my mind, which means that government owns me – how else can someone have the right to control something that comes from the initiative of my own consciousness? if government owns me, then I am a slave – not of the white slave trader, but of my own black government. If, on the other hand you accept that government does not own my life or my property, then their attempts to control it, to take it from me, etc, is an act of theft. Either way it is wrong." — Chanda Chisala, libertarian president and editor of Zambia Online
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