In a Perfect Display of Marxist/Socialist Logic, the Competition that Would Put an End to the Exploitation of Labor Is Prohibited on the Grounds that It Would Introduce the Exploitation of Labor

In sharpest contrast to capitalism, a socialist state effectively enslaves the workers and makes them mere means to the ends of the ruling elite. It does so, first of all, by means of the initiation of physical force against all other, potential employers, whose activities are simply prohibited. Their potential competition for labor is made a criminal offense on the grounds that if it were allowed to exist, the workers would be “exploited.” Thus, in a perfect display of Marxist/Socialist logic, the competition that would put an end to the exploitation of labor by the socialist state is prohibited on the grounds that it would introduce the exploitation of labor. Of course, the socialist state’s prohibition of employment by anyone but itself serves to forcibly hold the workers in service to it, as much as if they were chained to their jobs.

On top of this, in response to the universal shortages that accompany its economic chaos, and necessitate that it decide which products it is more important to produce than others, the socialist state again and again decides where specifically workers will  work, whether they want to or not.  In the Soviet Union, millions of them were sent to work in openly slave-labor concentration camps in Siberia. Workers in the Soviet Union were prohibited from leaving their jobs without permission from their state employers. All university and technical school graduates were compulsorily assigned to a job for a period of two to three years following graduation.

--George Reisman, Marxism/Socialism, A Sociopathic Philosophy Conceived in Gross Error and Ignorance, Culminating in Economic Chaos, Enslavement, Terror, and Mass Murder: A Contribution to Its Death (Laguna Hills, CA: TJS Books, 2018), Kindle e-book, 62-63.