Dismantling socialism and preventing socialism both need to be understood and mastered, wrote Jesús Huerta de Soto:
If it is concluded that socialism is ethically inadmissible, as well as a historic failure and an intellectual error, it will eventually be necessary to develop an entire tactical and strategic theory on the dismantling and prevention of it. The above will involve examining the concrete difficulties posed by the dismantling of each historical type of socialism (“real”, social democratic, self- management and so on) and evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the different alternatives or courses of action, particularly “gradualism versus revolution”, according to the possible specific circumstances in each case. Finally, prevention takes on key importance, given the recurrent, deceptive and essentially corrupting nature of the mechanisms which at all times encourage the resurgence of socialism and necessitate unflagging alertness, not only in the scientific realm, but also with respect to the defense and development of the institutions, habits, principles and behavior patterns required by any healthy social framework free from systematic coercion.
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