Never trust a socialist businessman. As a socialist, he’s telling
you he thinks profits are stolen from the wage earners. But as a businessman he’s
trying to make profits anyway. With every sale, he’s confessing to being
immoral by his own standards. Stay away from him.
Such hypocrisy characterized Friedrich Engels, the wealthy
communist cotton mill owner who subsidized Karl Marx, who, for his part, was
happy to be kept in this way, despite his belief that his subsistence came from
the exploitation of labor.
Beware of those who prattle about the evils of
selfishness and the morality of self-sacrifice. They are confessing every day
that they view their self-interest as evil, but allege they just never act for
it. What must happen if one day, just once, they do act for it?Beneath the facade of self-sacrifice, lurks the potential for great evil.
