In the course of his research for Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile (Harper Collins), Joseph Pearch traveled to Moscow to interview the writer. The excerpt below is from that interview:Solzhenitsyn: In different places over the years I have had to prove that socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, of bureaucratic greed and corruption and avarice, and consistent within itself that socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion. Communist propaganda would sometimes include statements such as 'we include almost all the commandments of the Gospel in our ideology.' The difference is that the Gospel asks all this to be achieved through love, through self-limitation, but socialism only uses coercion. This is one point."
Solzenitsyn added, "Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive."
As the concept of America's philosophical foundations, rooted in its Declaration of Independence from coercive government and adherence to belief in Divine Providence, "endowed by their Creator" rights, "laws of nature and of nature's God," and "Supreme judge of the world," as this concept is systematically erased from the American mind by censors of textbooks and the public square, then comparison and analysis such as this attempt by Hansen is difficult to evaluate.
"Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive."