"The increasing polarization in our society stems not from sexual, racial, or other physical differences, but from ideological ones. The opposing camps are not male versus female, white versus black, straight versus gay, able-bodied versus disabled. They are individualist versus collectivist, capitalist versus socialist, libertarian versus authoritarian. The former camp believes in individual freedom and responsibility; the latter believes in coercion and central control...

In a capitalist, individualist, libertarian society, those who wished to be socialistic could band together and do just that. They could form voluntary mutual aid societies, workplace co-ops, residential co-ops, or full-blown communes, religious or secular. Among themselves, they could choose to equalize their incomes, redistribute their wealth, subsidize childbearing, adopt sexual or racial quotas in thier business premises, ban dirty jokes and light switchplates, and so on. Capitalists would not stop them, because capitalists recognize that freedom includes the right to dispose of your energy and your property as you see fit, no matter how self-destructively that may turn out to be in some instances.

The reverse does not apply. In a collectivist society, capitalists are never permitted to opt out and deal with like-minded capitalists without interference. The collectivists insist that everyone pay for collectivist social programs, even if they don’t use them. Transactions of certain kinds of goods and services are forbidden, even among consenting adults. Everyone has to participate in the quotas, the price-fixing, the regimentation, like it or not."