With capitalism, the freedoms enjoyed and the results produced are evidence enough of its merits; whereas with communism perception relies on a delicate balance of power and persuasion, convincing the public of tales and theories, and the consequences of questioning them. Propaganda is that which seeks to place in the imagination that which is not experienced in reality, whereas market forces dictate to men what little they know about what they imagine they can design. This is, perhaps, at the very core of the debate between these two schools of thought: whether society ought to be brought into conformity around designs imagined — notwithstanding the lack of evidence, foresight and basis in reality, notwithstanding the force required to pursue their ill-defined ends — or whether society ought to be permitted to function through the voluntary expressions of individuals left to entertain their own theories, to develop their own visions and explore their own imaginations, to determin...