Can’t Be Said Often Enough …
The control of wealth is the control over human life. So if a centrally planned economy decides how wealth is to be created and how it is to be distributed, then they really have a control over human life.
That’s Arnold Beichman, interviewed by Columbia College Today in 2005. Beichman, who died February 17 at 96, knew whereof he spoke, having spent a lifetime—first as a journalist and then as a scholar—exposing the crimes of totalitarian movements around the world.

