The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus
socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been
silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined
rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original
meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men.
The goal of the “liberals”—as it emerges from the record of the past
decades—was to smuggle this country into welfare statism by means of
single, concrete, specific measures, enlarging the power of the government a
step at a time, never permitting these steps to be summed up into principles,
never permitting their direction to be identified or the basic issue to be
named. Thus statism was to come, not by vote or by violence, but by slow
rot—by a long process of evasion and epistemological corruption, leading
to a fait accompli. (The goal of the “conservatives” was
only to retard that process.)